SLS 25RS-58 ORIGINAL
2025 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 116
BY SENATOR KLEINPETER
NOTARIES. Provides for reciprocal notarial authority of notaries qualified in St. Martin
Parish and St. Landry Parish. (8/1/25)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 35:191(V), relative to notaries public; to provide authorization for a notary
3 appointed and qualified in St. Martin Parish and St. Landry Parish to exercise
4 notarial functions in all such parishes, without bonding or further application or
5 examination; to provide for qualifications and conditions; and to provide for related
6 matters.
7 Notice of intention to introduce this Act has been published.
8 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
9 Section 1. R.S. 35:191(V) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
10 ยง191. Appointment; qualifications; examination
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12 V. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
13 person who is validly appointed notary public in and for the parish of St.
14 Martin or the parish of St. Landry is hereby authorized and deemed eligible
15 and qualified to exercise any and all of the functions of a notary in the parishes
16 of St. Martin and St. Landry.
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SLS 25RS-58 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
SB 116 Original 2025 Regular Session Kleinpeter
Present law (R.S. 35:191) provides that any person may be appointed a notary public in and
for the parish in which he resides and in and for any one other parish in which he maintains
an office, under certain circumstances.
Proposed law retains present law and further provides that, notwithstanding any other
provision of law to the contrary, any person who is validly appointed notary public in and
for the parish of St. Martin or the parish of St. Landry is hereby authorized and deemed
eligible and qualified to exercise any and all of the functions of a notary in the parishes of
St. Martin and St. Landry.
Effective August 1, 2025.
(Adds R.S. 35:191(V))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.