District of Columbia Code
Chapter 12A - Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts
§ 1–1231.26. Validity of notarial acts

Except as otherwise provided in § 1-1231.03(c), the failure of a notarial officer to perform a duty or meet a requirement specified in this chapter shall not invalidate a notarial act performed by the officer. The validity of a notarial act under this chapter shall not prevent an aggrieved person from seeking to invalidate the record or transaction that is the subject of the notarial act or from seeking other remedies based on law of the District other than this chapter or law of the United States. This section shall not validate a purported notarial act performed by an individual who does not have the authority to perform notarial acts.
(Dec. 4, 2018, D.C. Law 22-189, § 27, 65 DCR 11606.)

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District of Columbia Code

Title 1 - Government Organization

Chapter 12A - Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts

§ 1–1231.01. Definitions

§ 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

§ 1–1231.15. Short forms

§ 1–1231.16. Official seal

§ 1–1231.17. Notarial sealer

§ 1–1231.18. Journal

§ 1–1231.19. Commission as notary public; endorsement as an electronic notary; qualifications; no immunity or benefit

§ 1–1231.20. Requirement of endorsement as electronic notary; selection of technology

§ 1–1231.21. Mandatory training of a notary public

§ 1–1231.22. Grounds to deny, refuse to renew, revoke, suspend, or condition commission of notary public

§ 1–1231.23. Fees

§ 1–1231.24. Notaries public electronic database

§ 1–1231.25. Prohibited acts

§ 1–1231.26. Validity of notarial acts

§ 1–1231.27. Existing notary public commission

§ 1–1231.28. Savings clause

§ 1–1231.29. Uniformity of application and construction

§ 1–1231.30. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act

§ 1–1231.31. Rules