(a) A notarial officer may refuse to perform a notarial act if the officer is not satisfied that:
(1) The individual executing the record is competent or has the capacity to execute the record; or
(2) The individual's signature is knowingly and voluntarily made.
(b) A notarial officer may refuse to perform a notarial act unless refusal is prohibited by a law other than this chapter.
(Dec. 4, 2018, D.C. Law 22-189, § 8, 65 DCR 11606.)
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 1 - Government Organization
Chapter 12A - Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
§ 1–1231.02. Applicability to future notarial acts
§ 1–1231.03. Authority to perform notarial act
§ 1–1231.04. Requirements for certain notarial acts
§ 1–1231.05. Personal appearance required
§ 1–1231.06. Identification of individual
§ 1–1231.07. Authority to refuse to perform notarial act
§ 1–1231.08. Signature if individual unable to sign
§ 1–1231.09. Notarial act in the District
§ 1–1231.10. Notarial act in another state
§ 1–1231.11. Notarial act under authority of a federally recognized Indian tribe
§ 1–1231.12. Notarial act under federal authority
§ 1–1231.13. Foreign notarial act
§ 1–1231.13a. Notarial act performed for remotely located individual
§ 1–1231.14. Certificate of notarial act
§ 1–1231.20. Requirement of endorsement as electronic notary; selection of technology
§ 1–1231.21. Mandatory training of a notary public
§ 1–1231.24. Notaries public electronic database
§ 1–1231.26. Validity of notarial acts
§ 1–1231.27. Existing notary public commission
§ 1–1231.29. Uniformity of application and construction
§ 1–1231.30. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act