As May 1 approaches, we are receiving more inquiries about the new Notary Public regulations. From our perspective, the two most important developments that occurred were that (1) the effective date was pushed back again to mid-May and (2) a clarification from the Governor’s Office specifically stated that no one shall refuse to record a document just because it does not comply with the regulations. This is good news for everyone doing recordings since a majority of registers of deeds had intended to reject such documents as soon as the rules went into effect (we didn’t agree with that interpretation). Early next week we’ll update the main part of our website with the latest on the Notary rules (tomorrow is the last day of the month and a Friday so we’ll be too busy recording documents to do anything with the website). During a lull in today’s activities, we did finally upload sales data from March 2004 and for all of 2003. Sorry for the delay. We’ll try not to let that happen again.
