District of Columbia Code
Title 1 - Government Organization
Chapter 12A - Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts

§ 1–1231.01. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) "Acknowledgment"...

§ 1–1231.02. Applicability to future notarial acts - This chapter, except for §§1-1231.13a, 1-1231.19(i), 1-1231.20, and 1-1231.21(b), shall...

§ 1–1231.03. Authority to perform notarial act - (a) A notarial officer may perform a notarial act authorized...

§ 1–1231.04. Requirements for certain notarial acts - (a) A notarial officer who takes an acknowledgment of a...

§ 1–1231.05. Personal appearance required - If a notarial act relates to a statement made in...

§ 1–1231.06. Identification of individual - (a) A notarial officer has personal knowledge of the identity...

§ 1–1231.07. Authority to refuse to perform notarial act - (a) A notarial officer may refuse to perform a notarial...

§ 1–1231.08. Signature if individual unable to sign - If an individual is physically unable to sign a record,...

§ 1–1231.09. Notarial act in the District - (a) A notarial act may be performed in the District...

§ 1–1231.10. Notarial act in another state - (a) A notarial act performed in another state shall have...

§ 1–1231.11. Notarial act under authority of a federally recognized Indian tribe - (a) A notarial act performed under the authority and in...

§ 1–1231.12. Notarial act under federal authority - (a) A notarial act performed under federal law has the...

§ 1–1231.13. Foreign notarial act - (a) If a notarial act is performed under authority and...

§ 1–1231.13a. Notarial act performed for remotely located individual - (a) A remotely located individual may comply with § 1-1231.05...

§ 1–1231.14. Certificate of notarial act - (a) Notarial acts performed shall be evidenced by a certificate....

§ 1–1231.15. Short forms - The following short form certificates of notarial acts are sufficient...

§ 1–1231.16. Official seal - (a) The official seal of a notary public in the...

§ 1–1231.17. Notarial sealer - (a) A notary public shall be responsible for the security...

§ 1–1231.18. Journal - (a) A notary public shall maintain a journal in which...

§ 1–1231.19. Commission as notary public; endorsement as an electronic notary; qualifications; no immunity or benefit - (a) An individual qualified under subsection (c) of this section...

§ 1–1231.20. Requirement of endorsement as electronic notary; selection of technology - (a) A notary public shall not perform notarial acts with...

§ 1–1231.21. Mandatory training of a notary public - (a) An applicant for a commission as a notary public...

§ 1–1231.22. Grounds to deny, refuse to renew, revoke, suspend, or condition commission of notary public - (a) The Mayor may deny, refuse to renew, revoke, suspend,...

§ 1–1231.23. Fees - (a)(1) A notary public may charge fees for performing notarial...

§ 1–1231.24. Notaries public electronic database - The Mayor shall maintain an electronic database of notaries public...

§ 1–1231.25. Prohibited acts - (a) A commission as a notary public shall not authorize...

§ 1–1231.26. Validity of notarial acts - Except as otherwise provided in § 1-1231.03(c), the failure of...

§ 1–1231.27. Existing notary public commission - A commission as a notary public in effect on December...

§ 1–1231.28. Savings clause - (a) This chapter shall not affect the validity or effect...

§ 1–1231.29. Uniformity of application and construction - In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration shall be...

§ 1–1231.30. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act - This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the Electronic Signatures in...

§ 1–1231.31. Rules - (a) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5...