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A notary is defined as a _____________________ - Correct answer Public Officer whose function is to attest and certify the signing of documents. A Notary Public is responsible for ADMINISTERING OATHS? (True or False) - Correct answer True A Notary Public PRACTICES LAW? (True or False) - Correct answer False A Notary Public WITNESSES THE SIGNING OF DOCUMENTS? (True or False) - Correct answer True A Notary Public allows people to USE A BIRTH CERTIFICATE AS PROPER IDENTIFICATION? (True or False) - Correct answer False A Notary Public ATTESTS TO THE IDENTITY OF THE SIGNERS OF THE DOCUMENT. (True or False) - Correct answer True A Notary Public notes PROTESTS and ____________? - Correct answer takes acknowledgments of documents Although a Notary Public may be commissioned to perform services in connection with work for his/her employer, the notary is nonetheless a _____________? - Correct answer public officer and as such us required to provide notarial service to the general public.
A Government Notary whose fees and bond are waived, is limited by law to performing notarial services pertaining to the business of the government. (True or False) - Correct answer True At what point does a Government Notary perform notarial services outside of business of the government? - Correct answer Where the occasion is deemed by the head of the department of the governmental unit to be of URGENT NECESSITY and CONVENIENCE. In Hawaii, to be eligible for a notary public commission, the applicant must be: (List 3 Requirements) - Correct answer A U.S. citizen; Hawaii Resident; and at least 18 years of age. Application for a Notary Public Commission is made on forms provided by: - Correct answer the Attorney General. After approval of an applicant by the Attorney General, the applicant is required to take a written closed-book examination covering the ___________ _____ and _____________ _____________ that apply to notaries public. - Correct answer Statutory laws; Administrative Rules What is the passing score on the written examination for Notary Public Commission? - Correct answer 80 Percent The Attorney General may, in the Attorney General's discretion, appoint and commission such number of notaries public for the State as the Attorney General deems necessary for the public good and convenience. (True or False) - Correct answer True
Any Notary seeking to restore the notary's forfeited commission more than _________ from the date of expiration of the commission shall reapply as a new applicant for a notary public commission. - Correct answer one year Any Notary seeking to restore the notary's forfeited commission more than one year from the date of expiration of the commission shall ______ __ _ ____ ________ for a notary public commission.
- Correct answer reapply as a new applicant The Attorney General subject to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Sautes (HRS), may prescribe such rules as the Attorney General deems advisable concerning the administration of chapter 456, HRS, the appointment and duties of notaries public, and the duties of other officers there under. (True or False) - Correct answer True When was the Chapter 5-11, Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR), governing the practices and procedures of notaries commissioned in Hawaii, adopted? - Correct answer May 5, 2008 Each notary is required to obtain, at the expense of the notary or the notary's company, and shall constantly keep either an _______ ___ __ ____or a rubber stamp facsimile seal. - Correct answer engraved seal of office Each notary is required to obtain, at the expense of the notary or the notary's company, and shall constantly keep either an engraved seal of office or a ____ ____ ______ _____. - Correct answer rubber stamp facsimile seal Notarial seals must be ___________ in shape. - Correct answer circular
Notarial seals must be no larger than _______________ in diameter. - Correct answer 2 inches List (4) items that are required to be on the Notarial seal. - Correct answer 1. the Notary's name
- commission number
- "State of Hawaii"
- "Notary Public" The notary public shall __________ all the notary's official acts, attestations, certificates, and instruments therewith, and shall always add to an official signature the types or printed name of the notary and a statement showing the date that the notary's commission expires. - Correct answer authenticate Upon resignation, death, expiration of term of office without reappointment, or removal from the abandonment of office, the notary public shall ______________ deliver the notary's seal to the Attorney General for defacement or destruction. - Correct answer immediately If any notary fails to deliver the seal within ____ days of the date of the notary's resignation, expiration of term of office without reappointment, or removal from or abandonment of office, or if the notary's personal representative fails to comply within ninety days of the notary's death, then the notary public or notary's personal representative shall forfeit no more than $200 , in the discretion of the court, to be recovered in an action to be brought by the Attorney General on behalf of the state. - Correct answer 90 If any notary fails to deliver the seal within ninety days of the date of the notary's resignation, expiration of term of office without reappointment, or removal from or abandonment of office, or if the notary's personal representative fails to comply within ninety days of the notary's death, then the notary public or notary's personal
Each bond shall be approved by a ______ __ ____ _______ _______ of the circuit in which the notary resides. - Correct answer judge of the circuit court The clerk shall keep a book to be called the "_________ ________", in which the clerk shall record such data in respect to each of the bonds deposited and filed in the clerk's office as the Attorney General may direct. - Correct answer Bond Record In the performance of a notarial act, a notary's liability shall be limited to a failure by the notary to perform properly the actions required for the jurat, acknowledgment, or other notarial act. (True or False) - Correct answer True In the performance of a notarial act, a notary's liability shall not be limited to a success by the notary to perform properly the actions required for the jurat, acknowledgment, or other notarial act. (True or False) - Correct answer False For the official misconduct or neglect of a notary public or breach of any of the conditions of the notary's official bond, the notary and the surety on the notary's official bond shall be __________ to the party injured thereby for all the damages sustained. - Correct answer liable The party shall have a right of action in the party's own name upon the bond and may prosecute the action to _____ ______ and __________. - Correct answer Final judgement; execution What is a Notarial Record Book? - Correct answer Where the notary public records at length all acts, protests, depositions, and other things, noted or done in the notary's official capacity. All copies or certificates granted by the ntary shall by under the ______ ________ and _______ ______, and shall be received as
evidence of such transactions. - Correct answer notary's hand; notarial seal For each official act, the notary shall enter in the book:
- The _____, _______, and _______ of day of the notarial act. - Correct answer type; date; time For each official act, the notary shall enter in the book:
- The ________ or ________ and _________ of the document or proceeding. - Correct answer title; type; date For each official act, the notary shall enter in the book:
- The _____________, _________ _______, and ____________ of each person whose signature is notarized and of each witness; - Correct answer signature; printed name; address For each official act, the notary shall enter in the book:
- Other parties to the __________________ - Correct answer instrument For each official act, the notary shall enter in the book:
- The manner in which the signer was _________________. - Correct answer identified The record book shall be bound with a soft cover and shall not exceed _________ inches in height. - Correct answer 11
A notary public in government service, shall perform, without charge, the services of a notary public in all matters of business pertaining to the State, any political subdivision thereof, or the United States. (True or False) - Correct answer True A notary public in government service, shall perform, with charge, the services of a notary public in all matters of business pertaining to the State, any political subdivision thereof, or the United States. (True or False) - Correct answer False a notary public in government service shall: Be authorized to perform the duties of a notary public in one or more of the __________ __________ of the state as the Attorney General shall designate; - Correct answer judicial circuits a notary public in government service shall not be required to: _______ any fee to the clerk of any circuit court for filing a copy of the notary's commission. - Correct answer Pay a notary public in government service shall not be required to: _______ any fee to the Attorney General for the issuance of the notary's commission or the renewal thereof; - Correct answer Pay a notary public in government service shall not be required to: Furnish and file an official _______ unless that bond is required by the head of the department in which the notary is a subordinate. - Correct answer bond a notary public in government service shall: Not demand or receive any _____ for the notary's service as a notary public. - Correct answer fee
a notary public in government service shall not be: compelled to, administer oaths or take acknowledgments in nongovernmental matters, for which services the prescribed fees shall be demanded and received as governmental realizations and deposited into the notaries public _________ ______ established by HRS 456-9.5. - Correct answer revolving fund a notary public in government service: .............Except that if that fund is terminated, the fees shall be deposited into the general fund of the _______________. - Correct answer state With prior written approval by the Attorney General, the notary public, upon paying the fees prescribed by law an upon executing, depositing, and filing at the notary's own expense, the required official bond, may demand or receive the fees prescribed by law for services rendered by the notary in matters _________ pertaining to such government business. - Correct answer not A notary is defined as a "public officer whose function is to attest and certify, by the notary's hand and official _______, certain classes of ______________, in order to give them credit and _______________ in foreign jurisdictions, to take acknowledgments of deeds and other conveyances, and certify them, and to perform certain official acts, chiefly in commercial matters." - Correct answer seal; documents; authenticity A document is notarized in order to protect persons signing an important document. (True or False) - Correct answer True A document is notarized in order to protect others signing an important document. (True or False) - Correct answer False
Taking an _________________. - Correct answer acknowledgment Under Hawaii law, the duties of a notary public are generally confined to performing the following notarial acts: Administering an _________, ___________, or ______________.
- Correct answer oath; affirmation; affidavit Under Hawaii law, the duties of a notary public are generally confined to performing the following notarial acts: Taking a __________________. - Correct answer deposition Under Hawaii law, the duties of a notary public are generally confined to performing the following notarial acts: ___________ a protest. - Correct answer Noting An acknowledgment is a ___________ __________ or formal statement of the person executing (signing) an instrument made to the official authorized to take the acknowledgment, that the execution of such instrument was his or her free act and deed. - Correct answer public declaration The written evidence of an ___________________ is the certificate of the officer who wakes the acknowledgment, which states in substance that the person named it the acknowledgment was known to and appeared before the officer and acknowledged the instrument to be the person's act and deed - Correct answer acknowledgment An oath is "a solemn _______ or ____________ made by a person (often called the affiant) with an appeal to God, or a
Supreme Being, to attest to the truth of the person's words. - Correct answer pledge; promise An affirmation is "a solemn ___________ or _____________ made as a substitute for a sworn statement by a person whose conscience will not permit the person to swear at all. - Correct answer statement; declaration An affirmation is a pledge of ones __________. - Correct answer honor An affidavit is "a written or printed ____________ ____ ______, made voluntarily, and under oath or affirmation of the party making it, taken before an officer having authority to administer such oath." - Correct answer statement of facts The term Deposition is sometimes used in a broad sense to describe any written statement verified by oath; but in it's more technical and appropriate sense, the meaning of the word is limited to the written testimony of a witness given in the course of a judicial proceeding, either at law or in equity, _________ to the trial or hearing upon oral examination or in response to written interrogatories and where an opportunity is given for cross- examination. - Correct answer prior What is deposition? - Correct answer a witnesses sworn out of court testimony A protest is a "formal _____________ made by a person in interest or concerned in some act about to be done, or already performed, whereby the person expresses the person's dissent to _______________, or affirms the act against the person's will. - Correct answer declaration; disapproval
It is of utmost important that the individual who is to have a document notarized personally ____________ before the notary public. - Correct answer appear A notarization over the phone is absolutely forbidden. (True or False) - Correct answer True A notarization over the phone is acceptable (True or False) - Correct answer False A notary who is not a licensed attorney may ___________ engage in the practice of law. - Correct answer not If a notary attempts to assist someone in the preparation of legal papers, such acts may constitute the _________________ practice of law. - Correct answer unauthorized One who has a ___________ interest in a document, no matter how small or nominal the interests, cannot act as a notary public relative to that document. - Correct answer beneficial Mere relationship to a party does not _____________ a notary. - Correct answer disqualify Thus, a wife who is a notary public, _______ notarize her husband's documents, provided the wife does not derive a beneficial interest therefrom. - Correct answer may A notary should never notarize a document unless the notary is absolutely _____________ after reading through the notarial certificate, that whatever the notary is certifying to is true and correct. - Correct answer satisfied
If a person appearing before the notary physically cannot sign the person's own name or make a mark on a document presented for notarization, a notary ________ sign the name of the person, provided that the notary is satisfied that the person has voluntarily given consent for the notary to sign on the person's behalf. - Correct answer may If a person is able to make a mark on a document, the notarization forms should reflect that the person is signing by a mark. In such instances, an attorney may require the presence of at least ______ impartial witnesses to witness the signing by mark, and the notarial certificate will be drafted to reflect their presence - Correct answer two A notary who willfully and knowingly breaches the notary's official duty may be liable to _______ injured as a result. - Correct answer one A notary may be also liable for a ____________ performance of duty resulting in a n injury. - Correct answer negligent In the event of a breach of notarial duties, the notary may be also subject to criminal liability such as:
- ______________________: the wresting of anything of value from another by duress, force, or by any undue exercise of power
- Correct answer Extortion In the event of a breach of notarial duties, the notary may be also subject to criminal liability such as:
- ______________________: the fraudulent making or altering of a writing, with the intent to deceive another and prejudice the person in some right. - Correct answer Forgery
A notary commits the offense of failure to authenticate with a certification statement if the notary knowingly notarizes a document and fails to include any of the following in the notary certification:
- The printed _______ and _______ or ________ of the notary public. - Correct answer name; stamp; seal A notary commits the offense of failure to authenticate with a certification statement if the notary knowingly notarizes a document and fails to include any of the following in the notary certification:
- Identification of the ___________ in which the notarial act is performed. - Correct answer jurisdiction A notary commits the offense of failure to authenticate with a certification statement if the notary knowingly notarizes a document and fails to include any of the following in the notary certification:
- Identification or description of the ____________ being notarized, placed in close proximity. - Correct answer document A notary commits the offense of failure to authenticate with a certification statement if the notary knowingly notarizes a document and fails to include any of the following in the notary certification:
- A statement of the number of _________ and date of the document. - Correct answer date A person commits the offense of misrepresenting a notarized document in the _________ degree if the person submits or invites reliance on a document that the person knows has been
altered after the document has been notarized by a notary public in this or any other jurisdiction. - Correct answer first A person commits the offense of misrepresenting a notarized document in the first degree if:
- The offense was committed with ____________ to mislead a public servant - Correct answer intent A person commits the offense of misrepresenting a notarized document in the first degree if:
- The offense was committed for ________ of commercial or private financial gain. - Correct answer purpose A person commits the offense of misrepresenting a notarized document in the ____________ degree if, with intent to mislead another, the person submits or invites reliance on a document that the person knows has been altered after the document had been notarized by a notary public in this or any other jurisdiction - Correct answer second A notary public commissioned in the State of Hawaii can _______ perform the notary's duties in the State of Hawaii and not in another state or country. - Correct answer only Because a notarial certificate usually requires a notary to indicate thereon the venue or location of the notarial act, a notary should be aware that the state is divided into ________ judicial circuits. - Correct answer four The ________ judicial circuit the the island of Oahu and all other islands belonging to the State not hereinafter mentioned, and the district of Kalawao on the island of Molokai. [Designated Venue: City & Count of Honolulu - Correct answer first
