Monti Notary Services, LLC is able to provide you with a wide array of notary services.  We can help with any documents that you have that need to be notarized.  These include:

Vehicle Transfers
Boat & Trailer Transfers
Lien Releases
School Residency Affidavits
Power of Attorney - Mandates
Retirement Documents

We have multiple notaries available.
Hours of Operation: 7:30 am - 4:30 pm Monday - Friday
Closed daily 11 am 12 pm

On site and after hours appointments available.  Call us at 985-240-4160 to schedule.

Fees

General document notary fee: $20 for the first notarization and $5 for each additional notarization.  

Witness fee: $5 each.  

Vehicle and Boat transfers: $35.00 

Mobile notary services are available by appointment for an additional travel fee of $50 anywhere in St. Charles Parish.    

Fees for document preparation vary according to the time required to prepare the document.  Contact us for an estimate.   

We accept cash, checks, debit and credit cards.   

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q.  Does the person who signed the document need to be present?  Can I bring in a document signed by someone else?
A.  The document must be signed in the presence of the notary.   The signer must appear before the Notary with proper identification.  

Q.  Are Louisiana notaries required to use a seal?
A.  An embossed seal or stamp is not required.  A Louisiana notary's signature is his seal.  

Q.  What forms of ID are acceptable?
A.  We accept original government issued identification documents.  We can accept a Driver's License, State ID, Passport, TWIC Card, or Merchant Mariner Credential.  

Q.  My document requires a Medallion Signature Guarantee.  Can you do that?
A.  No.  The Medallion Signature Guarantee program is provided by the financial services industry.  It is not a notarial act.  Check with your local bank as they may be able to provide this service.   Participants in the MSG program can be found at http://www.msglookup.com/search.html

Q.  Do you notarize wills prepared by an online service?
A.  We do not notarize wills prepared by third parties.  

Q.  I have a document(s) going out of the country that has to be certified (apostilled, state sealed, authenticated). What do I need to do?
A.  Documents going to another country require certification by the Secretary of State. The Commissions Division certifies the signature of the acknowledging Louisiana official, including notaries.  More information can be found here: https://www.sos.la.gov/NotaryAndCertifications/Certifications/AuthenticateSignaturesOfLouisianaOfficials/Pages/default.aspx

Forms & Links

Links to the frequently used forms can be found below.  The forms are free for your personal use.  Need something else?  We can create custom documents to fit your unique circumstances. Contact us for more information.    

Forms:

Affidavit of One and the Same
Affidavit of Correction

Affidavit of Heirship - Vehicle
Affidavit of Heirship - Boat & Motor

Bill of Sale - Vehicle

Bill of Sale - Boat & Motor

Links:

Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles
LA Wildlife & Fisheries - Boat Registration

St. Charles Parish Clerk of Court

St. Charles 29th Judicial District Court

LA Secretary of State

LA Real Estate Commission Forms 

What is a Notary?

A Louisiana Civil Law Notary is a public official that has broad powers to draft and execute documents as well as administer oaths.  Unlike common law notaries from other states, Louisiana notaries are empowered to do much more than simply serve as an "official witness." The far-reaching powers granted to Louisiana civil law notaries are listed in Louisiana RS 35:2.

A.(1)  Notaries public have power within their several parishes:

(a)  To make inventories, appraisements, and partitions;


(b)  To receive wills, make protests, matrimonial contracts, conveyances, and generally, all contracts and instruments of writing;

(c)  To hold family meetings and meetings of creditors;

(d)  To receive acknowledgements of instruments under private signature;

(e)  To make affidavits of correction;

(f)  To affix the seals upon the effects of deceased persons, and to raise the same.

(2)  All acts executed by a notary public, in conformity with the provisions of Civil Code Art. 1833, shall be authentic acts.

(3)  Notwithstanding any provision in the law to the contrary, a notary public shall have power, within the parish or parishes in which he is authorized, to exercise all of the functions of a notary public and to receive wills in which he is named as administrator, executor, trustee, attorney for the administrator, attorney for the executor, attorney for the trustee, attorney for a legatee, attorney for an heir, or attorney for the estate.

B.  However, each notary public of this state shall have authority to administer oaths in any parish of the state, to swear in persons who appear to give testimony at a deposition before a general reporter or free-lance reporter certified under the provisions of R.S. 37:2551 et seq., and to verify interrogatories and other pleadings to be used in the courts of record of this state.  Such oaths, and the certificates issued by such notaries shall be received in the courts of this state and shall have legal efficacy for purposes of the laws on perjury.

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.