A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to eliminate the requirement of an elected official recommendation for notary public applicants in counties with more than fourteen thousand notaries public.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 10B‑5(b)(9) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	A person qualified for a notarial commission shall meet all of the following requirements:
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(9)	Obtain the recommendation of one publicly elected official in North Carolina and submit the recommendation with the application. The requirement of this subdivision shall not apply to any applicant who seeks to receive the oath of office from the register of deeds of a county where more than 14,000 active notaries public are on record on January 1 of the year when the application is filed."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective on October 1, 2009, and applies to applications submitted on or after that date.