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1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

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2 - APPOINTMENT PROVISIONS

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3 - POWERS

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4 - DUTIES

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5 - FORMS AND PROCEDURES

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7 - REVOCATION OF COMMISSION; ACTIO

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8 - CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY

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9 - CURATIVE PROVISIONS

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CHAPTER 29C. UNIFORM NOTARY ACT.
ARTICLE 6. LIABILITY, FINES AND IMPRISONMENT.

§29C-6-101. Liability of notary.
A notary public is liable to the persons involved for all damages proximately caused by the notary's official misconduct.

§29C-6-102. Liability of employer of notary.
The employer of a notary public is also liable to the persons involved for all damages proximately caused by the notary's official misconduct, if:

(a) The notary public was acting within the scope of his employment at the time he engaged in the official misconduct; and

(b) The employer consented to the notary public's official misconduct.

§29C-6-103. Proximate cause.
               It is not essential to a recovery of damages that a notary's official misconduct be the only proximate cause of the damages.
PART II. MISCONDUCT.

§29C-6-201. Official misconduct defined.

The term "official misconduct" means the wrongful exercise of a power or the wrongful performance of a duty. The term "wrongful" as used in the definition of official misconduct means unauthorized, unlawful, abusive, negligent, reckless or injurious.

§29C-6-202. Official misconduct.
(a) A notary public who knowingly and willfully commits any official misconduct is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year or both fined and imprisoned.

(b) A notary public who recklessly or negligently commits any official misconduct is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

§29C-6-203. Willful impersonation.
Any person who acts as, or otherwise willfully impersonates, a notary public while not lawfully appointed and commissioned to perform notarial acts is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.

§29C-6-204. Wrongful possession.
Any person who unlawfully possesses a notary's official seal or any papers or copies relating to notarial acts, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars.