He noted “several dozen” cases when notaries went abroad for a long time, and their office worked (in July, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Legislators of the Russian Federation, he gave an example when a notary went to Miami for 652 days, but retained his status, and an assistant worked for him). “And there is another case when a notary is in custody, and nevertheless his office continues to work, and notarial actions are carried out by an assistant. Naturally, this should not happen,” the minister emphasized. “All such cases should be regulated by law, and we will create optimal procedures for this.”