This handbook from CTAS, intended as a general guide and not an authority, is specially designed to assist non-attorney notaries with the general requirements, duties, powers, limitations, liabilities, and legal significance of their actions as a notary public. Legal counsel should be consulted whenever specific problems or questions arise concerning any aspect of the office of notary public. All fees quoted in this publication are as of the date of the writing and should be verified by consulting the Tennessee Code Annotated.