Do you know it’s that way for a fact in Hawaii. It doesn’t work that way in Texas. Our BC’s arent’ notarized either. I wasn’t implying that.
lol. I could actually tell you more about Hawaii’s idea of what constitutes an oath than you really want to hear. lol.
But a self-subscribing oath doesn’t have to be notarized. And why would there be a requirement for the signature to be witnessed if there’s never any notarization of the signature? All the registrar is signing to is the fact that they received the BC. The doctor and the witness have self-subscribing oaths attached to their signature line. The local registrar has no oath.
If you examine the twins’ certificates, you’ll notice the following:
To the left of the local registrar’s signature, there is a box for a datestamp by the local registrar. Then there is the signature box for the local registrar. Inside that box, there appears to be a date stamped very close to the signature. I can’t make out what it says. Perhaps someone else can run it through photoshop and tell us what the numbers are. Then to the right of the local registrar’s signature, there is a box for a datestamp by the “Reg. General” (At least I think that’s what it says. I can’t see that very well either.)
So do we have enough certificates to know if the dates are always the same between those two boxes? Having them the same leads me to believe they came from the same stamp and person. And I contend it’s the local registrar who’s stamping that date.
So if the local registrar had to datestamp the form and the Registrar General had to datestamp the form, I could see the latter using the local registrar’s datestamp as the official date filed/accepted because the local registrar is authorized by the state. Then the state/country registrar assigns and stamps a certificate number at the top of the form as her final approval.
When titling cars, we had to sign and date odometer statements and titles to match the date on the sales contract because if the dates didn’t match, the title work would be rejected by the state. That made a mess because the buyer had to come back to the dealership and sign all new paperwork and then the finance contracts had to re-done and re-submitted to the bank. It was a mess.
As I said, I just want you to consider that there are other possibilities.