Missouri Laws 486.1005 – Secretary to terminate electronic notary’s registration, when — procedure
1. The secretary shall terminate an electronic notary public’s registration for any of the following reasons:
(1) Submission of an electronic registration form containing a material misstatement or omission of fact;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.1005
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Commission: both the granting of authority to perform notarial acts and the written evidence of the granting of authority to perform such acts. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Secretary: the secretary of state for the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 486.600
(2) Failure to maintain the capability to perform electronic notarial acts, except as allowed in subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of section 486.985; or
(3) The electronic notary’s performance of official misconduct.
2. Prior to terminating an electronic notary’s registration, the secretary shall inform the notary of the basis for the termination and that the termination shall take place on a particular date unless a proper appeal is filed with the secretary before that date.
3. Neither resignation nor expiration of a notary commission or of an electronic notary registration precludes or terminates an investigation by the secretary into the electronic notary’s conduct. The investigation may be pursued to a conclusion, whereupon it shall be made a matter of public record regardless of whether the finding would have been grounds for termination of the commission or registration of the electronic notary.