General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 222 Justices of the Peace, Notaries Public and Commissioners

• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment and jurisdiction of justices of the peace and notaries public - Chapter 222, Section 1
  Justices of the peace and notaries public shall be appointed, and their commissions shall be issued, for the commonwealth, and they shall have jurisdiction throughout...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1923, 164, Sec. 7 - Chapter 222, Section 2
  Repealed, 1923, 164, Sec.
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of commissioners to administer oaths of office; returns; fees - Chapter 222, Section 3
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint commissioners to administer to public officers the oaths of office required by the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Appointment of commissioners; term - Chapter 222, Section 4
  The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, may appoint commissioners in the states, territories, districts and dependencies of the United States, and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Oath; seal - Chapter 222, Section 5
  A person appointed commissioner in a state, territory, district or dependency of the United States shall, within three months after his appointment, take and subscribe...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 222, Section 6
  A commissioner may, in his state, territory, district, dependency or country, administer oaths and take depositions, affidavits and acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments, to...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Instructions to commissioner - Chapter 222, Section 7
  The state secretary shall prepare and forward to each commissioner appointed under section four, instructions and forms in conformity to law, and a copy of...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acknowledgment of instrument; printed or typed name; expiration date - Chapter 222, Section 8
  A justice of the peace or notary public, when taking acknowledgment of any instrument provided by law to be recorded, shall print or type his...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Duty to print name below signature on probate matters - Chapter 222, Section 8A
  A justice of the peace, notary public or other person duly authorized, when taking an acknowledgment or administering an oath with relation to an instrument...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acting as justice or notary after expiration of commission; penalty - Chapter 222, Section 9
  Whoever presumes to act as a justice of the peace or notary public after the expiration of his commission, and after receiving notice of such...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Destruction of notary’s records; penalty - Chapter 222, Section 10
  Whoever knowingly destroys, defaces or conceals the records or official papers of a notary public shall forfeit not more than one thousand dollars and be...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Acknowledgments by persons in armed forces or their dependents - Chapter 222, Section 11
  Persons serving in or with the armed forces of the United States or their dependents, wherever located, may acknowledge any instrument, in the manner and...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Exemptions from maintaining journal of notary transactions - Chapter 222, Section 12
  Notwithstanding any general law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, attorneys-at-law and counselors-at-law as well as paralegals, legal secretaries and other legal staff, who...

Last modified: September 11, 2015