Bill Text: PA HB742 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for oath of office, bond and recording.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB742 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB742-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 759
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 742 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY JOHNSON, MURT, YOUNGBLOOD, CALTAGIRONE, PAYTON AND ROEBUCK, FEBRUARY 17, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011
AN ACT
Amending the act of August 21, 1953 (P.L.1323, No.373), entitled
"An act concerning notaries public; and amending, revising,
consolidating and changing the law relating thereto," further
providing for oath of office, bond and recording.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8 of the act of August 21, 1953
(P.L.1323, No.373), known as The Notary Public Law, amended
December 9, 2002 (P.L.1269, No.151), is amended to read:
Section 8. Oath of Office; Bond; Recording.--Every notary,
upon appointment and prior to entering upon the duties of the
office of notary public, shall take and subscribe the
constitutional oath of office, and shall give a surety bond,
payable to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the amount of
[ten thousand dollars ($10,000)] twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000), which bond shall, after being recorded, be approved
by and filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Every such
bond shall have as surety a duly authorized surety company or
two sufficient individual sureties, to be approved by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, conditioned for the faithful
performance of the duties of the office of notary public and for
the delivery of the notary's register and seal to the office of
the recorder of deeds of the proper county in case of the death,
resignation or disqualification of the notary within thirty (30)
days of such event. Such bond, as well as the commission and
oath of office, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder
of deeds of the county in which the notary maintains an office
at the time of appointment or reappointment. The commission of
any notary hereafter appointed who shall, for forty-five (45)
days after the beginning of the term, neglect to give bond and
cause the bond and the commission and oath to be recorded, as
above directed, shall be null and void.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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