8-16-112 - Scope of authority Powers. - Tennessee Statutes

8-16-112. Scope of authority Powers.

A Tennessee notary public is authorized to act in any county in the state and has the power to acknowledge signatures upon personal knowledge or satisfactory proof, to administer oaths, to take depositions, to qualify parties to bills in chancery, and to take affidavits, in all cases. Furthermore, in all such cases the notary public's seal shall be affixed and the notary public shall sign such documents in ink by the notary's own hand unless otherwise provided by law.

[Acts 1949, ch. 254, § 4; C. Supp. 1950, § 5914.4; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1613; T.C.A. § 8-16-202; Acts 2004, ch. 854, §§ 8, 18.]