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359.07 NOTARY IN DETACHED COUNTY.
    Subdivision 1. Powers. In any county which has heretofore been detached from another
county of this state, and which has been newly created and organized, any notary public residing
in such newly created and organized county, who was a resident of the county from which the
new county was detached and created, shall have the same powers during the unexpired term of
appointment as such notary public was authorized by law to exercise under the commission issued
to the notary as a resident of the county from which the new county was detached and created and
within which the original appointment as notary public was made; and all acts heretofore done by
any such notary public, while residing in the newly created and organized county, otherwise in
conformity of law, are hereby declared to be legal and valid and to the same effect as if the notary
public had been originally commissioned as a resident of the newly created and organized county.
    Subd. 2. Record of commission. Such notary public so residing in the newly created
and organized county shall have the commission as such notary public recorded by the court
administrator of the district court of the newly created and organized county of residence, or of
the county to which the newly created county is attached for judicial purposes, as provided in
section 359.061, and when so recorded shall be entitled to the same certificate of and from the
court administrator of the district court as provided in section 359.061.
    Subd. 3. Seal. Such notary shall, immediately upon the adoption of this section, get an
official seal, as provided in and in conformity with section 359.03.
History: (6943, 6944, 6945) 1907 c 323 s 1-3; 1980 c 509 s 142; 1986 c 444; 1Sp1986 c 3
art 1 s 82

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