§456-2 Qualifications; oath. Every person commissioned as a notary public shall, at the time of the person's commission, be a resident of the State, possess the other qualifications required of a notary public and be at least eighteen years of age. Every person, prior to being commissioned as a notary public, shall take and subscribe an oath for the faithful discharge of the person's duties, which oath shall be filed in the department of the attorney general. [CC 1859, §1267; RL 1925, §3175; RL 1935, §5201; am L 1941, c 322, §2; am L 1943, c 173, pt of §1; RL 1945, §7662; RL 1955, §168-2; am L 1965, c 248, §1; HRS §456-2; am L 1972, c 2, §22; am L 1976, c 146, §1; am L 1978, c 122, §2; gen ch 1985; am L 2020, c 54, §5]
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For discussion of residence qualification, see The New Resident: Hawaii's Second-Class Citizen. 5 HBJ 77 (1968).
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 25. Professions and Occupations
456-1.5 Powers and duties of the attorney general.
456-4 Filing copy of commission; authentication of acts.
456-6 Liabilities; limitations on; official bond.
456-7 Unauthorized practice as a notary public.
456-9 Fees and administrative fines.
456-9.5 Notaries public special fund.
456-10 Duties, by mercantile usage.
456-11 Protests; negotiable paper.
456-12 Protest, evidence of what.
456-15 Journal; copies as evidence.
456-18 Notaries in government service.
456-19 Notary public signing for disabled person.
456-20 Failure to verify identity and signature.
456-21 Failure to authenticate with a certification statement.
456-22 Authority to refuse to perform notarial act.
456-23 Notarial act performed for remotely located individual
456-24 Remote online notaries public; application; qualifications.
456-26 Validity of notarial acts
456-27 Relation to the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act