WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                    Ch. 378

(h) The Archives is not liable to an individual for:

(1)  errors in indexing or extracting information from
vital records; or

(2)   reasonable reliance on evidence that the person
in a vital record pertaining to birth, marriage, or divorce is
deceased.

(i) Unless a record has been transferred to the custody of
the Archives, the information disclosed under this section does
not constitute an official record.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1989.

Approved May 19, 1989.

CHAPTER 378

(House Bill 104)

AN ACT concerning

Notaries Public

FOR the purpose of repealing a certain requirement to be a notary
public; providing that a notary public shall pay a certain
fee depending on the term of commission issued; requiring
the clerks of the courts to keep certain records; providing
that the renewal of a notary term shall require an
application; providing that the Secretary of State shall
issue a renewal application prior to the expiration of a
notary public's current term; providing that a notary public
is disqualified from acting under certain circumstances;
prohibiting a notary public from doing certain things;

requiring that a notary shall keep certain records;

providing that a notary may not be liable for a certain
entry made in certain records; providing for a notary and

the notary's employer to be liable under certain

circumstances; staggering requiring the Secretary of State
to stagger, under certain conditions, the terms of notaries
public; and generally relating to notaries public.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 68 - Notaries Public

Section 1 and 5

Annotated Code of Maryland

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