A. Appeals should be addressed to the Business Services Division of the Secretary of State's Office. The appeal must be in writing and under oath. The written appeal shall include submission of copies of three pages from the notary's journal including the pages before and after the entry of information surrounding the certificate in question.B. Appeals will be on the record unless an oral hearing is requested.C. Oral hearings are in the sole discretion of the Secretary of State's Office.D. Where an oral hearing is granted, the hearing will be conducted informally with relaxed rules of evidence in accordance with these Rules.E. The notary public shall bring the original journal to any oral hearing for review by the hearing officer.1 Miss. Code. R. § 5-11.8
Section 25-34-51 et seq. Mississippi Code of 1972 as amended.