[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR92.14]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92--NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 92.14  Venue on notarial certificates.

    (a) The term venue means the place where the certificate is 
executed. The venue must be shown on all notarial certificates to 
establish the qualifications and sphere of authority of the notarizing 
officer to perform the notarial act. The items characteristic of a 
typical venue, in the order of their appearance in the certificate, are 
as follows:
    (1) Name of the country (or dominion, Territory, colony, island, as 
appropriate);
    (2) Name of province or major administrative region (if none, this 
may be omitted);

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    (3) Name of local community (city, town, or village);
    (4) Name of the Foreign Service post.
    (b) When a notarial act is performed, and the notarial certificate 
executed, at a locality in a consular district other than the locality 
in which the Foreign Service office is situated, the venue should 
mention only the name of the country (or dominion, territory, colony, 
island, as appropriate), and the name of the consular district.
    (c) The venue used at a Foreign Service post which has not been 
officially designated as an embassy, legation, consulate general, 
consulate, or consular agency should bear the notation ``American 
Consular Service'' in place of the post name.