Bill Text: NY A04453 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires all banks and credit unions to have a notary public available during business hours; permits banks to charge a fee for such service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to banks [A04453 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04453-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4453
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Banks
        AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to requiring all banks  and
          credit unions to have a notary public available during business hours
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section  6-n  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  6-n.  Notary publics; required. Every banking institution and every
     4  credit union shall have a person qualified as a notary  public  in  this
     5  state  on  staff  and available on the premises of each facility of such
     6  bank or credit union during regular business hours. Such banking  organ-
     7  ization  and credit union shall have the option to charge a nominal fee,
     8  not to exceed any fee  established  in  law,  for  any  notary  services
     9  provided.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00097-01-9
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