KRS 384.080: Performance of notarial acts by commissioned officers of armed forces.

(1) In addition to the acknowledgment of instruments and the performance of official

acts in respect to instruments in the manner and form and as otherwise authorized

by law, instruments may be acknowledged, documents attested, oaths and

affirmations administe red, depositions and affidavits executed, and other such

official acts performed, before or by any commissioned officer in active service of

the Armed Forces of the United States for any person who either

(a) Is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, or

(b) Is serving as a merchant seaman outside the limits of the United States, or

(c) Is outside said limits by permission, assignment or direction of any

department or official of the United States government.

(2) Such acknowledgment of instru ments, attestation of documents, administration of

oaths and affirmations, execution of depositions and affidavits, and performance of

other notarial acts, heretofore or hereafter made or taken, are hereby declared legal,

valid and binding, and instruments and documents so acknowledged, authenticated,

or sworn to shall be admissible in evidence and eligible to record in this state under

the same circumstances, and with the same force and effect as if such

acknowledgment, attestation, oath, affirmation, depo sition, affidavit, or other

official act, had been made or taken within this state before or by a duly qualified

officer or official and under his appropriate certificate and seal of office as

otherwise provided by law.

(3) In the taking of acknowledgment s and the performing of other notarial acts

requiring certification, a certificate endorsed upon or attached to the instrument or

document, which shows the date of the notarial act and which states, in substance,

that the person appearing before the office r acknowledges the instrument as his act

or made or signed the instrument or document under oath, shall be sufficient for all

intents and purposes.

(4) When the official signature of any such commissioned officer appears upon such

instrument, document or certificate, it shall be prima facie evidence that the person

making such oath or acknowledgment is within the purview of this section.