---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 876"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "876"
heading: "Fees for notarial acts; prima facie evidence of authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/876"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §876. Fees for notarial acts; prima facie evidence of authority


No fee of any kind shall be paid to any officer for the performance of any notarial act authorized by [section 875 of this title](/usc/33/875.md). The signature without seal together with indication of grade of any officer performing any notarial act shall be prima facie evidence of his authority.


## Source credit

(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 932, § 2, 70 Stat. 988.)