§ 4215. Notarial acts, oaths, affirmations, affidavits, and depositions; fees

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1906

   Pub. L. 59–1366 § 7 · 34 Stat. 99

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4215

   Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 7, 34 Stat. 101

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 7, 34 Stat. 101

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 7. That every consular officer of the United States is hereby Notarial acts required. required, whenever application is made to him therefor, within the limits of his consulate, to administer to or take from any person any oath, affirmation, affidavit, or deposition, and to perform any other notarial act which any notary public is required or authorized by law to do within the United States; and for every such notarial act performed Fees. he shall charge in each instance the appropriate fee. prescribed by the President under section seventeen hundred and forty-five. R. S., sec. 1745, p. 310. Revised Statutes.

2. 1994

   Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995

   Pub. L. 103–236 title I § 127(b) · 108 Stat. 382

   Inserted · 22 U.S.C. § 4215

   Pub. L. 103–236 inserted at end “Pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, the Secretary may designate any other employee of the Department of State who is a citizen of the United States to perform any notarial function authorized to be performed by a consular officer of the United States under this Act.”

   Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 103–236 inserted at end “Pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, the Secretary may designate any other employee of the Department of State who is a citizen of the United States to perform any notarial function authorized to be performed by a consular officer of the United States under this Act.”

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Notarial Authority.— The Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States”, approved April 5, 1906 (34 Stat. 100, 22 U.S.C. 4221) is amended 22 USC 4215. in section 7 by adding at the end “Pursuant to such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, the Secretary may designate any other employee of the Department of State who is a citizen of the United States to perform any notarial function authorized to be performed by a consular officer of the United States under this Act.”.

3. 1994

   Pub. L. 103–415 § 1(mm)(1) · 108 Stat. 4299

   Struck and inserted · 22 U.S.C. § 4215

   Pub. L. 103–415 struck out sentence inserted at end by Pub. L. 103–236. See below

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 103–415 struck out sentence inserted at end by Pub. L. 103–236. See below.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) The Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States” approved April 5, 1906 (34 Stat. 100, 22 U.S.C. 4215) as amended by section 127 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994and 1995 (Public Law 103–236) is amended by striking the last sentence of section 7.

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