2025 Session
Last amended: 2010 session
§ 358.09 — By Whom and How Administered
Plain-Language Summary
Officers who can take acknowledgments may also give oaths, certifying them with a signature and stamp.
358.09 BY WHOM AND HOW ADMINISTERED.
Any officer authorized by this chapter to take and certify acknowledgments may administer an oath, and, if the same be in writing, may certify the same under the officer’s signature, and an official notarial stamp, in the following form: “Subscribed and sworn to before me this ………… day of …………….., …..” The mode of administering an oath commonly practiced in the place where it is taken shall be followed, including, in this state, the ceremony of uplifting the hand.
History:
(6967) RL s 2681; 1986 c 444; 2010 c 380 s 3
History: History: (6967) RL s 2681; 1986 c 444; 2010 c 380 s 3
Practical Notes
In Minnesota, the custom when taking an oath is to raise your hand.