- A. The course of study shall include the Maryland Notary Public laws, regulations, ethics, procedures, and the Handbook for Maryland Notaries Public. Every topic shall be fully covered so each participant can comply with the aforementioned requirements.
- B. The design of the examination shall offer each applicant a mix of questions of comparable difficulty to every other applicant and sourced from each of the sections in the Handbook for Maryland Notaries Public covering the laws, regulations, ethics, and procedures.
- C. Instructions for the course and examination shall be comprehensive in scope and explain the requirements of education, how to apply for examinations, when examinations are given, the cost of the course of study and examination, and requirements for passing the examination. Instructions must notify the applicant how to access the current Handbook for Maryland Notaries Public.
- D. Each question on the examination must be relevant to the requirements of the Maryland notary public laws, regulations, ethics, procedures, and/or Handbook for Maryland Notaries Public.
- E. The provider shall have a robust bank of at least 50 different test questions so that repeat applicants do not receive a statistically sufficient number of previously attempted test questions.
- F. The examination shall contain at least 20 questions that are clearly stated in a multiple-choice format, and each applicant must correctly answer at least 80 percent of the questions in order to be issued a Certificate of Passing under Regulation .15E of this chapter.
- G. Each question on the examination shall contain 4 multiple-choice answers with only one correct answer.
- H. If the provider provides applicants with an electronic examination format, providers shall provide applicants with a secure operating system capable of administering electronic examinations.
- I. The testing system shall provide immediate scoring which notifies the applicant of passing or failure at the conclusion of the examination session.
Authority: State Government Article, §§18-102, 18-103, 18-107 and 18-222, Annotated Code of Maryland;
Ch. 407, §1, Acts of 2019, Effective October 1, 2020
Effective date: October 8, 1984 (11:20 Md. R. 1740)
Regulation .01B amended effective October 3, 1988 (15:20 Md. R. 2333)
Regulation .02B amended effective March 25, 1985 (12:6 Md. R. 593)
Regulation .04 adopted effective July 1, 1989 (16:12 Md. R. 1332)
Regulation .04 amended and Regulations .05 and .06 adopted as an emergency provision effective July 25, 1989 (16:16 Md. R. 1733); adopted permanently effective October 16, 1989 (16:20 Md. R. 2179)
Chapter revised effective December 11, 2000 (27:24 Md. R. 2198)
Regulation .03A amended effective April 1, 2014 (41:6 Md. R. 377)
Regulation .03D amended effective August 13, 2018 (45:16 Md. R. 774)
Regulation .03E amended effective January 2, 2006 (32:26 Md. R. 1995)
Regulation .04 amended effective March 1, 2003 (29:26 Md. R. 2027); August 29, 2016 (43:17 Md. R. 952)
Chapter revised effective October 5, 2020 (47:20 Md. R. 874)
Regulation .01B amended effective November 14, 2022 (49:23 Md. R 995)
Regulation .02 amended effective November 14, 2022 (49:23 Md. R 995)
Regulation .02A, B amended effective January 22, 2024 (51:1 Md. R 15)
Regulation .03 amended effective January 22, 2024 (51:1 Md. R 15)
Regulation .07 amended effective November 14, 2022 (49:23 Md. R 995)
Regulation .09E, F, G, H amended effective January 22, 2024 (51:1 Md. R 15)
Regulation .09I adopted effective January 22, 2024 (51:1 Md. R 15)
Regulation .10 amended effective January 22, 2024 (51:1 Md. R 15)
Regulation .11C amended effective November 14, 2022 (49:23 Md. R 995)
Regulations .13—17 adopted effective October 1, 2021 (48:19 Md. R. 802)