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HB 422 Original 2015 Regular Session Garofalo
Abstract: Authorizes any attorney or notary who examines the public records and states that the
records contain obvious and apparent clerical errors to execute an affidavit of corrections.
Present law provides that a clerical error in a notarial act affecting movable or immovable property
or any other rights may be corrected by an act of correction executed by person who was the notary
before whom the act was passed, the notary who actually prepared the act containing the error, or
if either are dead or incapacitated, a notary who has possession of the records of that person.
Proposed law specifies extends present law to deeds affecting movable or immovable property such
as acts of sale, donations, encumbrances and sales by public bodies.
Proposed law provides that an attorney, in addition to a notary, in possession of the records, and that
any attorney or notary who certifies that he has examined the public records and who states that the
records contain obvious and apparent clerical errors may execute the affidavit of corrections.
(Amends R.S. 35:2.1(A)(1))