CHAPTER 4. ADMINISTERING OATHS AND TAKING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IC 33-42-4
Chapter 4. Administering Oaths and Taking Acknowledgments
IC 33-42-4-1
Persons authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments
Sec. 1. The following may subscribe and administer oaths andtake acknowledgments of all documents pertaining to all matterswhere an oath is required:
(1) Notaries public.
(2) Justices and judges of courts, in their respectivejurisdictions.
(3) The secretary of state.
(4) The clerk of the supreme court.
(5) Mayors, clerks, clerk-treasurers of towns and cities, andtownship trustees, in their respective towns, cities, andtownships.
(6) Clerks of circuit courts and master commissioners, in theirrespective counties.
(7) Judges of United States district courts of Indiana, in theirrespective jurisdictions.
(8) United States commissioners appointed for any UnitedStates district court of Indiana, in their respective jurisdictions.
(9) A precinct election officer (as defined in IC 3-5-2-40.1) andan absentee voter board member appointed under IC 3-11-10,for any purpose authorized under IC 3.
(10) A member of the Indiana election commission, aco-director of the election division, or an employee of theelection division under IC 3-6-4.2.
(11) County auditors, in their respective counties.
(12) Any member of the general assembly anywhere in Indiana.
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.21.
IC 33-42-4-2
Fraudulent acts
Sec. 2. A person authorized to administer oaths or takeacknowledgments who, with intent to defraud:
(1) affixes the person's signature to a blank form of affidavit orcertificate of acknowledgment; and
(2) delivers that form to another person, with intent that it beused as an affidavit or acknowledgment;
commits a Class D felony.
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.21.
IC 33-42-4-3
Fraudulent use of forms
Sec. 3. A person who knowingly uses a form that was deliveredto the person in violation of section 2 of this chapter commits a ClassD felony.
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.21.