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§328.  Testing sureties on bonds; new bond; forfeiture of commission for failure to give

NOTE:  Repealed by Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.

A.  The custodian shall institute proceedings by rule in the Civil District Court of the parish of Orleans at least once every twelve months, and  more often if he deems it proper and necessary, without the payment of costs by the custodian, on all non-attorney notaries in the parish to test the surety on their official bonds, and should the sureties on the official bonds so tested be judicially declared not good and solvent as required by law, the non-attorney notary whose surety has been so declared shall pay the costs of the rule, and shall be allowed thirty days within which to give a new bond, upon the payment of all costs which have been assessed against him in any proceeding filed by the custodian under the provisions of this Part.

B.(1)  Whenever the non-attorney notary's commission is revoked for failure to comply with the requirements of this Part, no judgment of any court reinstating the non-attorney notary rendered after the expiration of thirty days as hereinabove provided for shall be valid.

(2)  He shall not be entitled to act as a notary during the period of thirty days.

Acts 1997, No. 1102, §1; Acts 2006, No. 621, §20(A), eff. Jan. 1, 2009.