Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 107

NOTARIES PUBLIC

AN ACT to amend Chapter 42 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware of 1915 providing for the appointment of Notaries Public.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 42 of the Revised Code of 1915 of the State of Delaware, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by the repeal of 1006. Section 1, and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following, which shall be styled as 1006. Section 1.

1006. Section 1. Notaries ; Number of :--The Governor is authorized and directed to appoint every person who shall be appointed by him to the office of Justice of the Peace in this State, and every person who shall be appointed by him as Collector of State Revenue also a Notary Public, provided that a Collector of State Revenue shall only act as a Notary Public in connection with work performed in carrying out the duties of his office ; and provided further, however, that the term of office of any person appointed a Notary .Public under the provisions of this Section, whose appointment as a Justice of the Peace, or Collector of State Revenue shall not be confirmed by the Senate, or who shall fail to qualify, resigns, or is removed from said office of the Justice of the Peace, or Collector of State Revenue, shall terminate at the same time his term of office as Justice of Peace or Collector of State Revenue terminates.

In addition to the Notaries Public authorized to be appointed by the first paragraph of this Section, the Governor is authorized and directed to appoint one Notary Public for each trust company, bank, banking association, or branch or branches thereof in this State, whether state or national, now or hereafter to be chartered or organized under the laws of this State, or of the United States. Provided, however, that the privileges and duties of the Notaries Public who may be appointed for the several Trust Companies, Banks, Banking Associations, or branch or branches thereof in this State, whether state or national, now or hereafter to be chartered or organized under the laws of this State, or of the United States, shall be confined to the business of their respective Trust Companies, Banks, Banking Associations, or branch or branches thereof; so far as acknowledgments are concerned, this provision shall be construed to include the execution of any instrument to which said respective Trust Companies, Banks, Banking Associations, or branch or branches thereof, are parties.

In addition to the Notaries Public, hereinbefore authorized to be appointed, there may be appointed in New Castle County two hundred Notaries Public, in Kent County forty Notaries Public, in Sussex County forty Notaries Public.

Approved March 26, 1929.