(1) The Secretary of State shall maintain an electronic database of notaries public:
- (a) Through which a person may verify the authority of a notary public to perform notarial acts; and
- (b) Which indicates whether a notary public has registered with the Secretary of State in order to perform notarial acts on electronic records or to act as an online notary public.
- (2) Each county clerk who files a notary public's assurance and administers the oath of office to a notary public shall promptly record the fact and date in the database described in subsection (1) of this section.
Effective: January 1, 2020
History: Created 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 21, effective January 1, 2020.