Sec. 3-94c. Term of office of notary. Recording of certificate and oath.
Sec. 3-94c. Term of office of notary. Recording of certificate and oath. (a) A
person appointed as a notary public by the Secretary of the State may exercise the
functions of the office of notary public at any place within the state beginning on the
date of such person's appointment and ending five years later on the last day of the month
of appointment, unless (1) such appointment as a notary is suspended or terminated by
the Secretary before the end of such term, (2) the notary resigns such appointment, or
(3) the notary ceases to either be a resident of the state or have one's principal place of
business in the state.
(b) The Secretary may, pursuant to regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, extend or reduce, by not more than one year, the term of any
person serving as a notary public on October 1, 1990, who seeks reappointment after
such date, in order for the new term for each such notary to begin on the effective date
of the notary's reappointment.
(c) Within thirty days after receiving a certificate of appointment from the Secretary,
a notary public shall record, with the town clerk of the municipality in the state in which
the notary resides, or, if the notary is not a resident of the state, with the town clerk of
the municipality in the state in which the notary's principal place of business is located,
such certificate and such notary's oath of office taken and subscribed to by the notary
before some proper authority. Any notary public who is a resident of the state and whose
principal place of business is in a municipality within the state other than the municipality
in which the notary resides, may also record the notary's certificate of appointment and
oath of office with the town clerk of such other municipality. Town clerks or assistant
town clerks may certify to the authority and official acts of any notary public whose
certificate of appointment and oath of office have been recorded in the books in their
charge. The failure of a notary public to so record such certificate of appointment and
oath of office shall not invalidate any notarial act performed by the notary after the date
of such person's appointment as a notary public.
(P.A. 90-154, S. 3; P.A. 95-76, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 95-76 amended Subsec. (a) to add provision re notaries having principal place of business in the state
and amended Subsec. (b) to add provision requiring recording of certificate of nonresident notaries with town clerk where
notary's principal place of business is located.
Cited. 230 C. 24.