[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR92.33]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 92_NOTARIAL AND RELATED SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  92.33  Execution of certificate of acknowledgment.

    (a) When certificate should be executed. A notarizing officer should 
execute a certificate of acknowledgment immediately after the parties to 
the instrument have made their acknowledgment. Allowing several days or 
weeks to elapse between the time the acknowledgment is made and the 
certificate executed is undesirable, even though the officer may 
remember the acknowledgment act.
    (b) Venue. The venue must be shown as prescribed in Sec.  92.14.
    (c) Date. The date in the certificate must be the date the 
acknowledgment was made. This is not necessarily the same as the date 
the instrument was executed. In fact, there is no reason why an 
instrument may not be acknowledged a year or more after the date of its 
execution, or at different times and places by various grantors.
    (d) Names of parties. The name or names of the person or persons 
making the acknowledgment should appear in the certificate in the same 
form as they are set out in the acknowledged document, and in the same 
form as their signature on the instrument.
    (e) Additional statements. When executing a certificate of 
acknowledgment on Form FS-88, the notarizing officer may include any 
necessary additional statements in the blank space below the body of the 
certificate.
    (f) Signing and sealing certificate. The certificate of 
acknowledgment shall be signed and sealed as prescribed in Sec. Sec.  
92.15 and 92.16.

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

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