Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 172
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/27/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 52 - 60
    4  and insert:
    5         (3) A notary employee of a law firm shall maintain a
    6  separate notarial journal to record notarial acts of the
    7  employee subject to the requirements of this section which
    8  pertain to the law firm and its clients. Such notarial journal
    9  is the exclusive property of the law firm and shall be
   10  maintained and kept by the law firm in a secure area. Any such
   11  notarial journal must remain in the law firm’s custody upon the
   12  termination of the employment of the notary employee. A law firm
   13  shall comply with all applicable provisions of subsection (2) as
   14  it relates to notarial journals maintained by its notary
   15  employees to record notarial acts pertaining to the law firm and
   16  its clients.
   17         (4) Except as specifically provided in subsection (3), a
   18  notarial journal is the exclusive property of the notary public
   19  and must be kept in a locked and secure area, under the direct
   20  and exclusive control of the notary public. Access to an
   21  electronic notarial journal must be protected by a password or
   22  other secure means of authentication.
   23         (5) Failure of a notary public to comply with this section
   24  does not invalidate an otherwise lawful notarization.
   25         (6) This section does not apply to employees of a law
   26  enforcement agency, an office of state attorney, or the Office
   27  of the Attorney General when acting within the scope of their
   28  employment.
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 11 - 17
   33  and insert:
   34         inaccessible during the retention period; requiring
   35         notary employees of a law firm to maintain a separate
   36         notarial journal for certain notarial acts pertaining
   37         to the law firm and its clients; providing that such a
   38         notarial journal is the exclusive property of the law
   39         firm; requiring the law firm to comply with notarial
   40         journal maintenance and security requirements;
   41         providing that all other notarial journals are the
   42         exclusive property of a notary public; requiring a
   43         notary public to secure a notarial journal; providing
   44         that failure to comply with notarial journal
   45         requirements does not invalidate a lawful
   46         notarization; providing applicability; amending s.
   47         117.10, F.S.; exempting