Missouri Laws 486.620 – Secretary to prepare notary commission, duties — register of notaries
1. The secretary shall prepare a notary commission and forward the commission to the county clerk in the county of the applicant’s residence or regular place of work or business.
2. Upon issuing a notary commission, the secretary shall:
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.620
- 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
- County: any of the several counties of this state or the City of St. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- County clerk: any of the several county clerks of this state or the clerk of the circuit court in the City of St. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Oath: a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an affirmation and in which an individual at a single time and place:
(a) Appears in person before the notary. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Regular place of work or business: a stationary office or workspace where one spends all or some of one's working or business hours. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Secretary: the secretary of state for the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 486.600
(1) Notify the notary that he or she shall present the required bond to the county clerk;
(2) Provide an oath with the commission to be taken by the notary in the presence of the county clerk or their designee, within sixty days of the commission issue date;
(3) Require the oath and bond to be mailed by the notary to the secretary’s office with a postmarked date not exceeding seven days from the date of the oath; and
(4) Once the oath and bond have been received, examined, and approved, update the notary’s commissioned status.
3. Any commission issued that fails to qualify within sixty days shall be marked by the county clerk as not qualified and shall be returned to the secretary within fifteen days.
4. Any notary who fails to qualify within the sixty days may be required to reapply for a notary commission.
5. The county clerk shall keep a register of each person to whom they award a notary commission, as prescribed by the secretary.