SLS 14RS-707 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 307
BY SENATOR CROWE
NOTARIES. Provides relative to hospital notaries.(8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 35:403(A) and (B), relative to hospital notaries; to provide2
relative to certain hospital service district hospitals; to provide for certain limitations,3
terms, conditions, and procedures; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 35:403(A) and (B) are hereby amended and reenacted to read as6
follows:7
ยง403. Ex officio notaries for hospital service district hospitals8
A. Notwithstanding any provisions of the law relative to qualifications of9
notaries public, the director of a hospital service district hospital, created pursuant10
to the provisions of R.S. 46:1051 et seq. or any act of the Louisiana legislature,11
may appoint not more than two employees of the hospital as ex officio notaries12
public.13
B. Such ex officio notaries may exercise the functions of a notary public14
only to administer oaths, receive sworn statements, execute affidavits,15
acknowledgments, and other documents, and shall be limited to matters within the16
official business functions of the hospital.17 SB NO. 307
SLS 14RS-707 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Julie J. Baxter.
DIGEST
Crowe (SB 307)
Present law provides that notwithstanding any provisions of the law relative to qualifications
of notaries public, the director of a hospital service district hospital, created pursuant to the
provisions of present law, may appoint not more than two employees of the hospital as ex-
officio notaries public.
Proposed law provides that notwithstanding any provisions of the law relative to
qualifications of notaries public, the director of a hospital service district hospital, created
pursuant to the provisions of present law or any act of the Louisiana legislature, may appoint
not more than two employees of the hospital as ex officio notaries public.
Present law provides that such ex officio notaries may exercise the functions of a notary
public only to administer oaths, receive sworn statements, execute affidavits,
acknowledgments, and other documents, and shall be limited to matters within the official
functions of the hospital.
Proposed law provides that such ex officio notaries may exercise the functions of a notary
public only to administer oaths, receive sworn statements, execute affidavits,
acknowledgments, and other documents, and shall be limited to matters within the official
business functions of the hospital.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 35:403(A) and (B))