§456-5  Official bond.  Each notary
public forthwith and before entering upon the duties of the notary's office
shall execute, at the notary's own expense, an official surety bond which shall
be in the sum of $1,000.  Each bond shall be approved by a judge of the circuit
court.



The obligee of each bond shall be the State and
the condition contained therein shall be that the notary public will well,
truly, and faithfully perform all the duties of the notary's office which are
then or may thereafter be required, prescribed, or defined by law or by any
rule made under the express or implied authority of any statute, and all duties
and acts undertaken, assumed, or performed by the notary public by virtue or
color of the notary's office.  The surety on any such bond shall be a surety
company authorized to do business in the State.  After approval the bond shall
be deposited and kept on file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
of the judicial circuit in which the notary public resides.  The clerk shall
keep a book to be called the "bond record", in which the clerk shall
record such data in respect to each of the bonds deposited and filed in the
clerk's office as the attorney general may direct. [L 1941, c 322, pt of §4; RL
1945, §7665; am L 1955, c 104, §2; RL 1955, §168-5; HRS §456-5; am L 1978, c
122, §5; gen ch 1985; am L 1998, c 290, §4]