La. Stat. tit. 35 § 75
In all cases where notaries public throughout the state of Louisiana have filed or recorded, or may hereafter file and record, bonds in the offices of the several clerks of court and ex-officio recorder of conveyances and mortgages, and the register of conveyances and mortgages of the parish of Orleans, with any surety company authorized to do business in the state of Louisiana as surety, as permitted by existing laws, may, in lieu of such bonds of any surety company aforesaid, substitute a bond with personal surety acceptable to the presiding judge of the parish for which the notary is commissioned. The Secretary of State shall accept said substituted notarial bond with personal surety in lieu of notarial bond with surety company as surety.
La. R.S. § 35:75