HAR §5-11-46. Fees and administrative fines

(a) Pursuant to section 456-9, HRS, the attorney general shall charge and collect the following fees, which shall be nonrefundable: (1) Application for notary public commission, $20; (2) Application for renewal of notary public commission, $20; (3) Application for restoration of forfeited commission, $10; (4) Application for reinstatement of suspended commission, $10; 11-23 §5-11-46 (5) Issuance of notary public commission, $100; (6) Renewal of notary public commission, $100; (7) Each examination, $10; (8) Administrative fee to process and catalogue notary public journals, $10; (9) Restoration of forfeited commission, $80; (10) Change in name, employer, residential, or business address, telephone number, or judicial circuit, $10; (11) Notary public manual, $3 if the manual is picked up at the notary public office or $5 if the manual is to be mailed; (12) Certification of each notarial transaction from a notary public's journal in the disposition of the attorney general, $5 per notarial transaction; (13) Copying, per printed page, 25 cents; (14) Replacement commission certificate, $10; (15) Request to reschedule examination more than forty-eight hours before the examination, $15; (16) Request to reschedule examination less than forty-eight hours before the examination, $20; (17) Administrative fee to process returned documents from the court,. $15; (18) Application for remote online notary public commission, $20; (19) Application for renewal of remote online notary public commission, $20; (20) Issuance of remote online notary public commission, $100; (21) Renewal of remote online notary public commission, $100; (22) Administrative fee to process and catalogue audiovisual recordings, $10; and (23) Any other fees or charges referenced in chapter 456, HRS, or this chapter. (b) The attorney general may impose and collect the following administrative fines for each occurrence of the following: 11-24 §5-11-46 (1) Failure to timely notify the attorney general of change of any item specified in section 5-11-10, $25 per occurrence; (2) Failure to timely notify the attorney general of change of address that results in mailing of renewal forms to incorrect address, $50; (3) Failure to timely notify the attorney general of loss, misplacement, or theft of the notary public's notary seal or journal, $20; (4) Failure to appear at the examination without request or notification to reschedule examination received prior to the time of the examination, $25; (5) Failure to pick up commission certificate from the attorney general within sixty days of notification from the attorney general of the availability of the certificate, $40; (6) Failure to surrender the notary public's rubber stamp notary seal to the attorney general within ninety days of resignation from, or revocation or abandonment of, a commission, or the expiration of a commission without renewal, $200; (7) Failure to surrender the notary public's commission certificate to the attorney general within ninety days of resignation from, or revocation or abandonment of, a commission, or the expiration of a commission without renewal, $200; (8) Failure to destroy or disable the remote online notary public's electronic stamping device and to submit a declaration to the attorney general within ninety days of resignation from, or revocation or abandonment of, a commission, or the expiration of a commission without renewal that the electronic stamping device was destroyed or disabled, $200; (9) Possessing more than one rubber stamp notary seal at a time, $200; 11-25 )45i §5-11-46 (10) Failure to retain the notary public's journal for ten years after the performance of the last notarial act chronicled in the journal, no less than $50 and no more than $500; (11) Failure to comply with the audit or inspection of the notary public's journal by the attorney general, no less than $SO and no more than $500; (12) Failure to inform the attorney general of the location of the notary public's journal, no less than $50 and no more than $500; (13) Failure to transmit the notary public's journal to the attorney general or a repository approved by the attorney general upon the notary public's death, no less than $50 and no more than $500; (14) Failure to timely notify the attorney general of the notary public's status change as required by section 5-11-10.5, $25; and (15) Any other administrative fines referenced in chapter 456, HRS, or this chapter. (c) All fees and administrative fines prescribed by this chapter shall be deposited to the credit of the department of the attorney general 1 s notaries public revolving fund. (d) All unpaid fees and administrative fines shall constitute a debt due and owing to the State. [Eff 5/5/08; am and comp 3/12/15; am and comp FEB 2 7 2022] (Auth: HRS §§28-10.8, 456-1.5, 456- 8, 456-23) (Imp: HRS §§456-9, 456-24) 11-26 )451 §5-11-53 SUBCHAPTER 6 PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE