<P> Except for notaries public in some states, there are no officials in the US who are authorized to make certified copies of any kind of document presented to them . If one is in a state where notaries public are not authorized to make certified copies, one must deal with the entity that issued the original document to obtain a certified copy . </P> <P> Some states in the United States permit notaries public to certify copies; the laws or officials who regulate notaries should be consulted for details . The U.S. State Department in 2005 compiled a table summarizing the state laws and regulations . In the table below, notes from the State Department table have been omitted for states that do not authorize notaries to certify copies . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> U.S. State </Th> <Th> Certification of true copies permitted? </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alabama </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only register pages </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alaska </Th> <Td> No </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> American Samoa </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Arizona </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Arkansas </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> California </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only powers of attorney and notary journal pages . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Colorado </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only with signed written request stating certified copy not available from the officer of any recorder of public documents or other custodian of documents in the state . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Connecticut </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Delaware </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> District of Columbia </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Florida </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only with supervised photocopying . A notary may supervise the making of a photocopy of an original document and attest to the trueness of the copy . F.S.A. § 117.05 (15). A notary cannot attest to the trueness of a photocopy; only photocopies of original documents may be attested as to trueness F.S.A. § 117.05 (15) (a). A notary cannot attest to the trueness of a photocopy of a public record if a copy can be made by another public official . F.S.A. § 117.05 (15) a . This restriction does not apply to Florida civil law notaries (who are subject to F.S. 118). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Georgia </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only with supervised photocopying . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Guam </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Hawaii </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only protests and notary journal pages . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Idaho </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Illinois </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Iowa </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Kansas </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Kentucky </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only protests . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Louisiana </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> La . R.S. 35: 2 § 2 (C) "Every qualified notary public is authorized to certify true copies of any authentic act or any instrument under private signature hereafter or heretofore passed before him or acknowledged before him, and to make and certify copies, by any method, of any certificate, research, resolution, survey or other document annexed to the original of any authentic acts passed before him, and may certify such copies as true copies of the original document attached to the original passed before him ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Maine </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Maryland </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only register pages . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Massachusetts </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Michigan </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Minnesota </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Mississippi </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Missouri </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Montana </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only records issued or filed on the job . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nebraska </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nevada </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Not publicly recorded documents such as birth, death, or divorce documents </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> New Hampshire </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Per New Hampshire Revised Statute 456 B: 1 "Notarial act" means any act that a notary public is authorized to perform, and includes taking an acknowledgment, administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification upon oath or affirmation, witnessing or attesting a signature, certifying or attesting a copy, and noting a protest of a negotiable instrument . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> New Jersey </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> New Mexico </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> New York </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> North Carolina </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Northern Mariana Islands </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ohio </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Oklahoma </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Oregon </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Notaries are not permitted to certify copies of public documents, especially vital statistics . There is a regulation of the Health Records Division that specifically prohibits copying their records . The prohibition is not in the notary law, but in the law of the custodian of records . Oregon would allow an affidavit attesting to a true copy by the bearer, but the notary should encourage the bearer to get the real certified copy from the custodian of record . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pennsylvania </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Puerto Rico </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Rhode Island </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> South Carolina </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> South Dakota </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Tennessee </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Texas </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> A notary may not notarize a certified true copy of a recordable document . Birth certificates and marriage licenses are recordable documents . A recordable document is one that is recorded with some type of entity whether it be the Secretary of State's Office, a court of law, a county clerk, or the Bureau of Vital Statistics . Certified copies may be obtained by contacting such entities . A non-recordable document is one that has not been nor will ever be recorded with any type of entity . For instance, a letter is not recorded with anyone but there are times the sender of the letter would like to obtain a certified copy of that letter for his or her file . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Utah </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Only if custodian of original appears . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Vermont </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Virgin Islands </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Virginia </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> Virginia notaries are not authorized to certify true copies of birth, death, or marriage certificates . Only the Division of Vital Records / Statistics may perform such a certification . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Washington </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> West Virginia </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Wisconsin </Th> <Td> Yes </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Wyoming </Th> <Td> No </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> U.S. State </Th> <Th> Certification of true copies permitted? </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr>

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