140. (1) The board of directors or the president may request that the files relating to any notary’s records that may be subject to provisional custody be placed under seal until a provisional guardian is appointed or until the records are transferred or deposited. Such request shall be made by an application to the clerk for the district in which the notary to whom the records belong last practised. The clerk shall have full and complete jurisdiction in the matter.
(2) The clerk seized of the application shall order the files relating to such records to be placed under seal, notwithstanding any written or oral contestation, until final judgment is rendered on the application.