15 U.S.C. § 1061
Execution of acknowledgments and verifications
United States · Title 15 — COMMERCE AND TRADE · Status: effective
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- 15 U.S.C. § 1061, Execution of acknowledgments and verifications, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/440874
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Acknowledgments and verifications required under this chapter may be made before any person within the United States authorized by law to administer oaths, or, when made in a foreign country, before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States or before any official authorized to administer oaths in the foreign country concerned whose authority is proved by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, or apostille of an official designated by a foreign country which, by treaty or convention, accords like effect to apostilles of designated officials in the United States, and shall be valid if they comply with the laws of the state or country where made.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to authorize appropriations to the Patent and Trademark Office in the Department of Commerce, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally