[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 22CFR92.7]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92_NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 92.7  Responsibility of notarizing officers of the Department of State.

    (a) As a rule notarial acts should be performed at the consular 
office. Where required by the circumstances of a particular case and 
subject to the reasonableness of the request notarial acts may be 
performed elsewhere within the limits of the consulate subject to the 
assessment of the applicable fees under subheading ``Services Rendered 
Outside of Office'' of the Tariff of Fees (Sec. 22.1(a) of this 
chapter), as well as to payment by the interested party of the officer's 
expenses in going to the place where the service is performed and 
returning to his office (Sec. 22.1(b) of this chapter).
    (b) As indicated in Sec. Sec. 92.4, 92.5, and 92.6, the authority 
of secretaries of embassy or legation as well as consular officers to 
perform notarial acts is generally recognized. However, the function is 
essentially consular, and notarial powers are in practice exercised by 
diplomatic officers only in the absence of a consular officer or U.S. 
citizen State Department employee designated to perform notarial 
functions as provided in Sec. 92.1(d). Performance of notarial acts by 
an officer assigned in dual diplomatic and consular capacity shall be 
performed in his/her consular capacity, except in special circumstances.

[27 FR 12616, Dec. 20, 1962, as amended at 60 FR 51721, Oct. 3, 1995]

                       General Notarial Procedures