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2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 51 - NOTARIES PUBLIC AND COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS
Chapter 1 - IDAHO NOTARY PUBLIC ACT
Section 51-112 - OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT.
ID Code § 51-112 (2016) What's This?
51-112. Official misconduct. Official misconduct is the wrongful exercise of a power or the wrongful performance of a duty. In this context, wrongful shall mean unauthorized, unlawful, abusive, negligent, or reckless. Official misconduct by a notary public shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) Engaging in any fraudulent or deceptive conduct which is related in any way to his capacity as a notary public;
(b) Failure to exercise the required degree of care in identifying a person whose identity is an essential element of a notarial act;
(c) Representing or implying by the use of his title that he has qualifications, powers, duties, rights, or privileges that by the law he does not possess;
(d) Engaging in the unauthorized practice of law;
(e) Charging a fee for a notarial act which is in excess of that provided by section 51-110, Idaho Code; or
(f) Endorsing or promoting any product, service, contest or other offering if the notary public's title or seal is used in the endorsement or promotional statement.
History:
[51-112, added 1984, ch. 259, sec. 2, p. 624; am. 1994, ch. 145, sec. 2, p. 325.]
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