2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 25. Professions and Occupations
456. Notaries Public
456-5 Official bond.
§456-5 Official bond. Each notary public forthwith and before entering upon the duties of the notary public's commission shall execute, at the notary public's own expense, an official surety bond which shall be in the sum of $1,000. Each bond shall be approved by a judge of the circuit court.
The obligee of each bond, or bond continuation certificate, shall be the State and the condition contained therein shall be that the notary public will well, truly, and faithfully perform all the duties of the notary public's commission which are then or may thereafter be required, prescribed, or defined by law or by any rule made under the express or implied authority of any statute, and all duties and acts undertaken, assumed, or performed by the notary public by virtue or color of the notary public's commission. The surety on each bond, or bond continuation certificate, shall be a surety company authorized to do business in the State. After approval, the bond or bond continuation certificate shall be deposited and kept on file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the judicial circuit in which the notary public resides. The clerk shall keep a book to be called the "bond record", in which the clerk shall record data relating to each of the bonds or bond continuation certificates deposited and filed in the clerk's office as the attorney general may direct. [L 1941, c 322, pt of §4; RL 1945, §7665; am L 1955, c 104, §2; RL 1955, §168-5; HRS §456-5; am L 1978, c 122, §5; gen ch 1985; am L 1998, c 290, §4; am L 2020, c 54, §8]
