Part 92. PART 92—NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES

• Introduction

  • SECTION § 92.1 - Definitions.
  • SECTION § 92.2 - Description of overseas notarial functions of the Department of State, record of acts.
  • SECTION § 92.3 - Consular districts.
  • SECTION § 92.4 - Authority of notarizing officers of the Department of State under Federal law.
  • SECTION § 92.5 - Acceptability of notarial acts under State or territorial law.
  • SECTION § 92.6 - Authority of notarizing officers under international practice.
  • SECTION § 92.7 - Responsibility of notarizing officers of the Department of State.

• General Notarial Procedures

  • SECTION § 92.8 - Compliance with request for notarial services.
  • SECTION § 92.9 - Refusals of requests for notarial services.
  • SECTION § 92.10 - Specific waiver in notarial certificate.
  • SECTION § 92.11 - Preparation of legal documents.
  • SECTION § 92.12 - Necessity for certification of notarial acts.
  • SECTION § 92.13 - Form of notarial certificate.
  • SECTION § 92.14 - Venue on notarial certificates.
  • SECTION § 92.15 - Signing notarial certificate.
  • SECTION § 92.16 - Sealing the notarial certificate.
  • SECTION § 92.17 - Fastening of pages.

• Specific Notarial Acts

  • SECTION § 92.18 - Oaths and affirmations defined.
  • SECTION § 92.19 - Administering an oath.
  • SECTION § 92.20 - Administering an affirmation.
  • SECTION § 92.21 - Notarial certificate to oath or affirmation.
  • SECTION § 92.22 - “Affidavit” defined.
  • SECTION § 92.23 - Taking an affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.24 - Usual form of affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.25 - Title of affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.26 - Venue on affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.27 - Affiant's allegations in affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.28 - Signature of affiant on affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.29 - Oath or affirmation to affidavit.
  • SECTION § 92.30 - Acknowledgment defined.
  • SECTION § 92.31 - Taking an acknowledgment.
  • SECTION § 92.32 - Notarial certificate to acknowledgment.
  • SECTION § 92.33 - Execution of certificate of acknowledgment.
  • SECTION § 92.34 - Fastening certificate to instrument.
  • SECTION § 92.35 - Errors in certificate of acknowledgment.
  • SECTION § 92.36 - Authentication defined.
  • SECTION § 92.37 - Authentication procedure.
  • SECTION § 92.38 - Forms of certificate of authentication.
  • SECTION § 92.39 - Authenticating foreign public documents (Federal procedures).
  • SECTION § 92.40 - Authentication of foreign extradition papers.
  • SECTION § 92.41 - Limitations to be observed in authenticating documents.
  • SECTION § 92.42 - Certification of copies of foreign records relating to land titles.
  • SECTION § 92.43 - Fees for notarial services and authentications.

• Depositions and Letters Rogatory

  • SECTION § 92.49 - “Deposition” defined.
  • SECTION § 92.50 - Use of depositions in court actions.
  • SECTION § 92.51 - Methods of taking depositions in foreign countries.
  • SECTION § 92.52 - “Deposition on notice” defined.
  • SECTION § 92.53 - “Commission to take depositions” defined.
  • SECTION § 92.54 - “Letters rogatory” defined.
  • SECTION § 92.55 - Consular authority and responsibility for taking depositions.
  • SECTION § 92.56 - Summary of procedure for taking depositions.
  • SECTION § 92.57 - Oral examination of witnesses.
  • SECTION § 92.58 - Examination on basis of written interrogatories.
  • SECTION § 92.59 -
  • SECTION § 92.60 - Examination procedures.
  • SECTION § 92.61 - Transcription and signing of record of examination.
  • SECTION § 92.62 - Captioning and certifying depositions.
  • SECTION § 92.63 - Arrangement of papers.
  • SECTION § 92.64 - Filing depositions.
  • SECTION § 92.65 - Depositions to prove genuineness of foreign documents.
  • SECTION § 92.66 - Depositions taken before foreign officials or other persons in a foreign country.
  • SECTION § 92.67 - Taking of depositions in United States pursuant to foreign letters rogatory.
  • SECTION § 92.68 - Foreign Service fees and incidental costs in the taking of evidence.
  • SECTION § 92.69 - Charges payable to foreign officials, witnesses, foreign counsel, and interpreters.
  • SECTION § 92.70 - Special fees for depositions in connection with foreign documents.
  • SECTION § 92.71 - Fees for letters rogatory executed by officials in the United States.

• Miscellaneous Notarial Services

  • SECTION § 92.72 -
  • SECTION § 92.73 - Services in connection with trademark registrations.
  • SECTION § 92.74 - Services in connection with United States securities or interests therein.
  • SECTION § 92.75 - Services in connection with income tax returns.

• Copying, Recording, Translating and Procuring Documents

  • SECTION § 92.76 - Copying documents.
  • SECTION § 92.77 - Recording documents.
  • SECTION § 92.78 - Translating documents.
  • SECTION § 92.79 - Procuring copies of foreign public documents.
  • SECTION § 92.80 - Obtaining American vital statistics records.

• Quasi-Legal Services

  • SECTION § 92.81 - Performance of legal services.
  • SECTION § 92.82 - Recommending attorneys or notaries.
  • SECTION § 92.84 - Legal process defined.
  • SECTION § 92.85 - Service of legal process usually prohibited.
  • SECTION § 92.86 - Consular responsibility for serving subpoenas.
  • SECTION § 92.87 - Consular responsibility for serving orders to show cause.
  • SECTION § 92.88 - Consular procedure.
  • SECTION § 92.89 - Fees for service of legal process.
  • SECTION § 92.90 - Delivering documents pertaining to the revocation of naturalization.
  • SECTION § 92.91 - Service of documents at request of Congressional committees.
  • SECTION § 92.92 - Service of legal process under provisions of State law.
  • SECTION § 92.93 - Notarial services or authentications connected with service of process by other persons.
  • SECTION § 92.94 - Replying to inquiries regarding service of process or other documents.
  • SECTION § 92.95 - Transportation of witnesses to the United States.