[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 22, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 22CFR92.9]



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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS

 

                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

PART 92_NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  92.9  Refusals of requests for notarial services.



    (a) A notarizing officer should refuse requests for notarial 

services, the performance of which is not authorized by treaty 

provisions or permitted by the laws or authorities of the country in 

which he is stationed. (See Sec.  92.4(a).) Also, a notarizing officer 

should refuse to perform notarial acts for use in transactions which may 

from time to time be prohibited by law or by regulations of the United 

States Government such, for example, as regulations based on the 

``Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917,'' as amended.

    (b) A notarizing officer is also authorized to refuse to perform a 

notarial act if he had reasonable grounds for believing that the 

document in connection with which his notarial act is requested will be 

used for a purpose patently unlawful, improper or inimical to the best 

interests of the United States. Requests for notarial services should be 

refused only after the most careful deliberation.



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