Is a government employee required to notarize documents for the general public?
No. The Texas Attorney General’s office issued a letter opinion in 1988 indicating that a notary public who is employed by a governmental body may refuse to take acknowledgements for the general public and must refuse when doing so would interfere with the employee’s discharge of his or her duties as a public employee. Tex. Atty. Gen. Op. LO-88-34.
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