[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: 22CFR92.9]

[Page 359]
 
                       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]