Requires all banking organizations to have a notary public available during business hours; permits banking organizations to charge a fee for such service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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969
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, WEPRIN, SAYEGH, CUNNINGHAM, TAYLOR
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Banks
AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to requiring all banking
organizations to have a notary public available during business hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section 6-q to
2 read as follows:
3 § 6-q. Notary publics; required. Every banking organization shall have
4 a person qualified as a notary public in this state on staff and avail-
5 able on the premises of each facility of such banking organization
6 during regular business hours. Such banking organization shall have the
7 option to charge a nominal fee, not to exceed any fee established in
8 law, for any notary services provided.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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