§ 441 - Appointment; jurisdiction; ex officio notaries; application - Vermont Statutes

§ 441. Appointment; jurisdiction; ex officio notaries; application

(a) The judges of the superior court may appoint as many notaries public for the county as the public good requires, to hold office until ten days after the expiration of the term of office of such judges, whose jurisdiction shall extend throughout the state.

(b) The clerk of the supreme court, county clerks, district court clerks, family court clerks, justices of the peace, and town clerks and their assistants shall be ex officio notaries public.

(c) Every applicant for appointment and commission as a notary public shall complete an application to be filed with the clerk of the superior court stating that the applicant is a resident of the county and has reached the age of majority, giving his business or home address and providing a handwritten specimen of the applicant's official signature.

(d) An ex officio notary public shall cease to be a notary public when he vacates the office on which his status as a notary public depends. (Amended 1973, No. 106, § 8, eff. 30 days from April 25, 1973; 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 1983, No. 194 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1995, No. 181 (Adj. Sess.), § 14a.)