Louisiana Notary Requirements

La. R.S. § 35:2 (General powers). La. R.S. 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.

Louisiana is a CIVIL-LAW jurisdiction with NO documentary signer-identification / acceptable-ID list; a Louisiana notary passes 'authentic acts' under La. Civ. Code Art. 1833 (notary plus two witnesses; parties appear before the notary).

La. R.S. 35:199 (DUTY TO FILE, REGISTER, OR RECORD NOTARIAL INSTRUMENTS - civil-law recordation, immovable-property scope): A. Notaries public shall record all acts of sale, exchange, donation, and mortgage of immovable property passed before them, together with all resolutions, powers of attorney, and other documents annexed to or made part of the acts, in their proper order, and after first making a careful record of the acts in record books to be kept for that purpose as follows: (1) If the immovable is located in this state outside of the parish of Orleans, the notary shall record the instrument within fifteen days after they are passed, with the appropriate recorder of the parish or parishes in which the immovable property is situated. (2)(a) If the immovable is situated within the parish of Orleans, the notary shall file the instrument in the office of the custodian of notarial records for the parish of Orleans and record the instrument with the register of conveyances or recorder of mortgages or both. (b) If the instrument is an act of sale or any other act evidencing a transfer of immovable property situated in the parish of Orleans, it shall be the duty of the notary to cause the act to be registered with the office of the clerk as the recorder for the parish of Orleans, within forty-eight hours after the passage of the act. (c) The original of every authentic act, except chattel mortgages and acts relating to immovable property outside of Orleans Parish, passed before a notary public in Orleans Parish... shall... be first filed in the notarial archives of the parish of Orleans. B. The provisions of Subsection A... shall not be applicable to instruments affecting cemetery plots and shall not be so construed as embracing inventories or partitions or any other act required by law to be performed by notaries or parish recorders under any order of court.... C. All notaries who contravene the provisions of this Section shall be subject to a fine of two hundred dollars for each infraction.... D. A notary public shall be relieved of his obligations under Paragraph (A)(1) and Subparagraph (A)(2)(a) of this Section when he has been expressly directed in writing by all parties to the instrument to defer or refrain from such recordation.... (Acts 2006, No. 730; 2008, No. 677; 2008, No. 856; 2010, No. 537.)

NO STATUTORY FEE CAP. Title 35 sets no maximum per-act notary fee for ordinary acts; Louisiana notaries (other than certain ex officio/limited contexts) set fees by agreement with the parties.