PREFILED    JAN 06 2015

REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; notaries public; conduct

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015

HB 2031

Introduced by Representative Brophy McGee

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41‑328, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to notaries public.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 41-328, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-328.  Prohibited conduct; incomplete documents; signatures of relatives

A.  A notary public shall not perform a jurat on a document that is incomplete.  If a notary public is presented with a document that the notary knows from experience to be incomplete or if the document on its face is incomplete, the notary public shall refuse to perform the jurat.

B.  A notary public is an impartial witness and shall not notarize the notary's own signature or the signatures of any person who is related to the notary by blood, marriage or adoption.

C.  Subject to section 41‑320, a notary public shall not perform a notarization on a document if the notary is an officer of any named party, if the notary is a party to the document or if the notary will receive any direct material benefit from the transaction that is evidenced by the notarized document that exceeds in value the fees prescribed pursuant to section 41‑316. END_STATUTE