SECTION 230:20-3-35. Declarations must be notarized

(a)   The Candidate Information and Oath page of a Declaration of Candidacy must be notarized by a Notary Public or other person authorized by law to perform notarial acts in the State of Oklahoma. [26:5-111] Neither State Election Board nor County Election Board personnel shall notarize a Candidate Information and Oath page. A Notary Public must include his or her official signature, an impression of the Notary's official seal, commission number, and commission expiration date. Failure of a Notary Public to include either the commission number or commission expiration date shall not be grounds for rejecting a Declaration of Candidacy that is in all other respects valid on its face. However, a Declaration of Candidacy shall be deemed not to be notarized if a Notary Public fails to sign the notarial attestation or fails to apply the notarial seal on the Candidate Information and Oath page. [49:5]

(b)   State law allows persons other than a Notary Public to administer oaths and to perform notarial acts. Those persons include any judge, the secretary-bailiff of any judge, and the clerk or deputy clerk of any court in this state; all judge advocates, staff judge advocates, assistant judge advocates, and all legal officers of the state military forces; and any other person authorized by state law to perform the specific act. [49:114(A)] Similarly, notarial acts performed in Oklahoma under federal authority have the same effect as if performed by a notarial officer of this state.[49:114(B)]

[Source: Amended at 20 Ok Reg 474, eff 1-2-03 (emergency); Amended at 20 Ok Reg 1093, eff 7-1-03; Amended at 35 Ok Reg 565, eff 3-15-18 (emergency); Amended at 35 Ok Reg 1203, eff 9-14-18]