§456-20 Failure to verify identity and signature. (a) A person commits the offense of failure to verify identity if the person is a commissioned notary public and knowingly notarizes a document and if a witness to the signing of the instrument, fails to verify the identity of the signer by proof of the signer's signature and identity, or by obtaining satisfactory evidence of identity of a remotely located individual under section 456-23.
(b) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be sentenced in accordance with chapter 706.
(c) A conviction under this section shall result in the automatic revocation of the notary public's commission. [L 2008, c 175, pt of §2; am L 2020, c 54, §18]
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