Federal · Title 12 — Banks and Banking

12 U.S.C. § 23: Acknowledgment and filing of certificate

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The organization certificate shall be acknowledged before a judge of some court of record, or notary public; and shall be, together with the acknowledgment thereof, authenticated by the seal of such court, or notary, transmitted to the Comptroller of the Currency, who shall record and carefully preserve the same in his office.

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