[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR92.10]

[Page 375-376]
 
                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92--NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 92.10  Specific waiver in notarial certificate.

    If the notarizing officer has reason to believe that material 
statements in a document presented for notarization

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are false, and if no basis exists for refusing the notarial service in 
accordance with Sec. 92.9, he may consider the advisability of informing 
the applicant that he will perform the service only with a specific 
waiver of responsibility included in the notarial certificate. 
Furthermore, a notarizing officer may, in his discretion, add to the 
specific waiver in the notarial certificate a statement of verifiable 
facts known to him, which will reveal the falsity of material in the 
document. However, normally a notarizing officer shall exercise great 
caution not to limit the general privilege of a United States citizen 
while abroad to execute under oath any statement he sees fit to make, 
including mistaken, unnecessary, and even frivolous statements: 
Provided, That substantial and compelling reasons do not exist which 
impel restraining action on the part of the notarizing officer. On the 
other hand, experience has shown the desirability of including, as 
standard practice, a specific waiver of responsibility in all 
authentications (Sec. 92.38) executed in connection with divorce 
proceedings.

[22 FR 10858, Dec. 27, 1957, as amended at 60 FR 51723, Oct. 3, 1995]