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1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 3. The Illinois Notary Public Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 3-107 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (5 ILCS 312/3-107) | |||||||||||||||||||
7 | (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | delayed effective date ) | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | Sec. 3-107. Journal. | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | (a) A notary public or an electronic notary public shall | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | keep a journal of each notarial act or electronic notarial act | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | which includes, without limitation, the requirements set by | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | the Secretary of State in administrative rule, but shall not | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | include any electronic signatures of the person for whom an | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | electronic notarial act was performed or any witnesses. | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | (b) The Secretary of State shall adopt administrative | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | rules that set forth, at a minimum: | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | (1) the information to be recorded for each | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | notarization or electronic notarization; | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | (2) the period during which the notary public or | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | electronic notary public must maintain the journal; and | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | (3) the minimum security requirements for protecting | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | the information in the journal and access to the contents |
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1 | of the journal. | ||||||
2 | (c) A notary or electronic notary may maintain his or her | ||||||
3 | journal in either paper form or electronic form and may | ||||||
4 | maintain more than one journal or electronic journal to record | ||||||
5 | notarial acts or electronic notarial acts. | ||||||
6 | (d) The fact that the employer or contractor of a notary or | ||||||
7 | electronic notary public keeps a record of notarial acts or | ||||||
8 | electronic notarial acts does not relieve the notary public of | ||||||
9 | the duties required by this Section. A notary public or | ||||||
10 | electronic notary public shall not surrender the journal to an | ||||||
11 | employer upon termination of employment and an employer shall | ||||||
12 | not retain the journal of an employee when the employment of | ||||||
13 | the notary public or electronic notary public ceases. | ||||||
14 | (e) If the journal of a notary public or electronic notary | ||||||
15 | public is lost, stolen, or compromised, the notary or | ||||||
16 | electronic notary shall notify the Secretary of State within | ||||||
17 | 10 business days after the discovery of the loss, theft, or | ||||||
18 | breach of security.
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19 | (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section or | ||||||
20 | any rules adopted under this Section, neither a notary public | ||||||
21 | nor an electronic notary public is required to keep a journal | ||||||
22 | of or to otherwise record in a journal a notarial act or an | ||||||
23 | electronic notarial act if that act is performed on any of the | ||||||
24 | following documents to be filed by or on behalf of a candidate | ||||||
25 | for public office: | ||||||
26 | (1) nominating petitions; |
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1 | (2) petitions of candidacy; | ||||||
2 | (3) petitions for nomination; | ||||||
3 | (4) nominating papers; or | ||||||
4 | (5) nomination papers. | ||||||
5 | The exemption under this subsection (f) applies regardless | ||||||
6 | of whether the notarial act or electronic notarial act is | ||||||
7 | performed on the documents described in paragraphs (1) through | ||||||
8 | (5) of this subsection before, on, or after the effective date | ||||||
9 | of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, and the | ||||||
10 | failure of a notary public or an electronic notary public to | ||||||
11 | keep a journal of or to otherwise record such an act does not | ||||||
12 | affect the validity of the notarial act on that document and is | ||||||
13 | not a violation of this Act. As used in this subsection (f), | ||||||
14 | "public office" has the meaning given in Section 9-1.10 of the | ||||||
15 | Election Code. | ||||||
16 | (Source: P.A. 102-160 (See Section 99 of P.A. 102-160 for | ||||||
17 | effective date of P.A. 102-160).) | ||||||
18 | Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act makes | ||||||
19 | changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by text | ||||||
20 | that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a Section | ||||||
21 | represented by multiple versions), the use of that text does | ||||||
22 | not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i) the changes | ||||||
23 | made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from any other | ||||||
24 | Public Act.
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25 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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1 | becoming law. |