§ 5-4-3-1 — Certification of acknowledgment

(a) An official bond of any state, county,
township, or other public officer may not be approved until the
execution is acknowledged by the principal and sureties before some
officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. The officer
taking the acknowledgment shall certify the act on the bond.
(b) In the case of a surety company, the official bonds of the county
treasurer and the city controller acting as city treasurer in a second
class city shall be signed and acknowledged by the appropriate officers
of the company in the presence of a notary public or other officer
authorized to take acknowledgments. Otherwise, the official bonds of
those officers shall be signed and acknowledged by the officers and
their sureties in the presence of at least a majority of the board of
county commissioners in the case of the county treasurer and of a
majority of the common council of the city in the case of the city
controller acting as city treasurer of a second class city.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations: 17-3-32-1
part; 18-2-6-3 part; 18-4-4-7 part.]
Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.76, s.1. As amended by Acts 1980,
P.L.8, SEC.37.