Notaries public shall have authority within any county in this state to make the proof and acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments of writing required to be proved or acknowledged; to administer oaths; to demand acceptance or payment of foreign or inland bells of exchange and promissory notes, and protest the same for nonacceptance or nonpayment, as the same may require, and to exercise such other powers and duties as by law of nations and commercial usage may be performed by notaries public. A notary may not notarize his own signature.

Added by Laws 1910, § 4245; Amended by Laws 1971, c. 48, § 1, emerg. eff. March 30, 1971; Amended by Laws 1975, c. 165, § 2, emerg. eff. May 20, 1975.