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 and
take acknowledgments of all documents pertaining to all matters
where an oath is required:
(1) Notaries public.
(2) Justices and judges of courts, in their respective
jurisdictions.
(3) The secretary of state.
(4) The clerk of the supreme court.
(5) Mayors, clerks, clerk-treasurers of towns and cities, and
township trustees, in their respective towns, cities, and
townships.
(6) Clerks of circuit courts and master commissioners, in their
respective counties.
(7) Judges of United States district courts of Indiana, in their
respective jurisdictions.
(8) United States commissioners appointed for any United
States district court of Indiana, in their respective jurisdictions.
(9) A precinct election officer (as defined in IC 3-5-2-40.1) and
an 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, a
co-director of the election division, or an employee of the
election 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 take
acknowledgments who, with intent to defraud:
(1) affixes the person's signature to a blank form of affidavit or
certificate of acknowledgment; and
(2) delivers that form to another person, with intent that it be
used 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 delivered
to the person in violation of section 2 of this chapter commits a Class
D felony.
As added by P.L.98-2004, SEC.21.