** IN EFFECT UNTIL OCTOBER 1, 2020 PER CHAPTER 407 OF 2019 **

(a)    In addition to the acknowledgment of instruments in the manner and form otherwise authorized under this subtitle, a person serving in or with the armed forces of the United States and the person’s spouse or dependents may acknowledge an instrument:

(1)    wherever located; and

(2)    before any commissioned officer in active service of the armed forces of the United States with the rank of:

(i)    second lieutenant or higher in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps; or

(ii)    ensign or higher in the Navy or United States Coast Guard.

(b)    The instrument may not be rendered invalid by the failure to state in the instrument the place of execution or acknowledgment.

(c)    No authentication of the officers’ certificate of acknowledgment shall be required but the officer taking the acknowledgment shall endorse on or attach to the certificate of acknowledgment a certificate substantially in the following form:

On this the ................ day of ................, 20....., before me, ................................., the undersigned officer, personally appeared ................................................ known to me (or (Serial No.) (if any), satisfactorily proven) to be (serving in or with the armed forces of the United States) (the spouse of) (a dependent of) .................................................... a person serving in or with (Serial No.) (if any), the armed forces of the United States and to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged that .... he .... executed the same for the purpose therein contained. And the undersigned does further certify that he is at the date of this certificate a commissioned officer of the rank stated below and is in the active service of the armed forces of the United States.

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Signature of officer.

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Rank and Serial No. of Officer

and Command to Which Attached.