Oklahoma § 72-50.2 - Rank of officer - Spouse's acknowledgment Authentication - Acknowledgment before notary

§ 72-50.2. Rank of officer - Spouse's acknowledgment Authentication - Acknowledgment before notary

The deed of any person, for the conveyance of real estate within

this state, or for any other purpose, powers of attorneys, and other

instruments requiring acknowledgments or the taking and subscribing

of oaths, may, if such person is engaged in the military service of

the United States, be acknowledged before any officer in said

service of the rank of Sergeant or higher, and, if such person is

engaged in the naval service of the United States, before any

officer of the rank of Petty Officer or higher, and, if such person

is engaged in any other armed service of the United States, before

any officer of a rank corresponding to those mentioned above; and

such deeds, powers of attorneys, and other instruments so

acknowledged shall be accepted and recorded in this state in the

same manner as if taken before any officer now authorized by the

laws of this state to take such acknowledgments. Provided further,

that if the acknowledgment of any person herein be of such a nature

as to require a joint or separate acknowledgment of his or her

spouse, the officers designated herein shall have power to take the

acknowledgment of such spouse, and instruments upon which such

acknowledgments appear shall be entitled to recording under the laws

of this state. No authentication of an officer's certificate of

acknowledgment shall be required, but the officer taking the

acknowledgment or subscription shall sign his name and set forth his

rank or title and branch of service, and such statement by said

officer as to his rank, title and branch of service, and his home

address, shall be prima facie evidence thereof. Nothing herein

shall be construed as preventing any person named herein from

acknowledging instruments before a notary public or other officer of

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 72. Soldiers and Sailors

this or any other state or foreign country whose acknowledgments are

recognized for the purpose of recording under the laws of this

state.

Laws 1944, Ex. Sess., p. 22, § 2, emerg. eff. April 24, 1944.