2016 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 - Municipal and County Government
Chapter 5 - County Officers; Powers And Duties
Subchapter 9: Notaries Public
§ 442 Oath; certificate of appointment recorded; form

§ 442. Oath; certificate of appointment recorded; form

(a) A person appointed as notary public shall cause the certificate of his or her appointment to be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk where issued. Before entering upon the duties of office, he or she, as well as an ex officio notary, shall take the oath prescribed by the Constitution, and shall duly subscribe the same with his or her correct signature, which oath thus subscribed shall be kept on file by the county clerk as a part of the records of such county.

(b) The certificate of appointment shall be substantially in the following form:

      STATE OF VERMONT,                                                                                                     ss.

     __________________ County}

     This is to certify that A.B. of __________________ in such county, was, on the ____________ day of ____________, 20 ______, appointed by the assistant judges for such county a notary public for the term ending on February 10, 20 ______.

____________________________________________                                     Assistant Judges

________________________________________________________________________

     And at ____________ in such county, on this ____________ day of ________________, 20 ______ personally appeared A.B. __________________ and took oath of office prescribed in the constitution.

                                     Before me,

                                                C. D. ______________________________________________

                        (Designation of the officer administering the oath).

(Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 181.)