Official Bond; Appointment of Agent for Service of Process

Official Bond; Appointment of Agent for Service of Process. (a) Before entering upon the duties of office, a notary public may, at the discretion of the Attorney General, be required to execute at his or her own expense, an official surety bond for not more than $1,000. (b) The obligee of each bond shall be the Commonwealth and the condition contained in it shall be that the notary public will well, truly and faithfully perform all the duties of office which are then and may thereafter be required, prescribed or defined by law or by any rule or regulation made pursuant to any Commonwealth law, and all duties and acts are undertaken, assumed or performed by the notary public by virtue or color of his or her office. The surety on any bond shall be a surety company approved by the Attorney General. The notary public by accepting a commission, and the surety company by issuing the bond, thereby agree and appoint the mayor of any island in which the notary public performs any official act as his or her agent to accept service of process on the notary’s behalf for any purpose. After approval, the bond shall be deposited and kept in the office of the Attorney General, who will certify that the bond has been accepted and filed in proper form. Source: 31 TTC § 205; repealed and reenacted by PL 14-52, § 2 (3315). Commission Comment: Section 4 of PL 6-25, the “Commonwealth Judicial Reorganization Act of 1989,” provides that “[w]herever the term ‘Commonwealth Trial Court’ appears in the Commonwealth Code, it is henceforth to be interpreted and understood to refer to the Commonwealth Superior Court.”