18 NCAC 07B .0805          PROHIBITION ON USE OF AUXILIARY AID FOR INTERMEDIARY LANGUAGE

A notary public shall not allow a principal to use an auxiliary aid to act as a bridge or to provide relay interpretation to facilitate communication between a notary and a principal who do not share a common language.

Note: An example of an auxiliary aid acting as a bridge or relay between a principal with speech impairment whose language of communication is German and a notary who speaks English, and the aid translates the German into spoken English for the notary and the English into German for the principal.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 10B-4; 10B-134.15; 10B-134.17; 10B-134.21; 10B-134.23

Eff. July 1, 2025.