Tex. Gov't Code § 405.019 · Subchapter B. DUTIES
LIST OF STATES REQUIRING AN OFFICIAL SEAL FOR CERTAIN DOCUMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The secretary of state annually shall compile a list of those states or territories within the United States that require a notary public to validate a certificate of an acknowledgement, proof of a written instrument, or a jurat by attaching an official seal.
(b) The secretary of state shall make the list available to the county clerks of this state before January 1 of each year.
(c) The secretary of state shall amend the list and make the amended list available to the county clerks of this state if the secretary learns that a state or territory has changed its requirements relating to a notary public in a manner that requires it to be added to or deleted from the list.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 603, Sec. 3, eff. June 14, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 907 (S.B. 792), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.405.htm
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- sha256 a99801b3f37bfd36bd3b01bddbd30a1ccc95fcf363bf03884d9ed2a7497c0553
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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