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HRS §456-17

Notary fees

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This section lists the fees a notary public may charge for specific services, like protests, oaths, acknowledgments, and remote notarizations. It sets a fee for each act and extra fees for extra copies. It does not cover other notary rules.

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The statute, as written — Fees

A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

Subject to section 456-18, every notary public is entitled to demand and receive the following fees: (1) For noting the protest of mercantile paper, $5; (2) For each notice and certified copy of protest, $5; (3) For noting any other protest, $5; (4) For every notice thereof and certified copy of protest, $5; (5) For every deposition or official certificate, $5; (6) For the administration of oath, including the certificate of the oath, $5; for affixing the certificate of the oath to every duplicate original instrument beyond four, $2.50; (7) For taking any acknowledgment, $5 for each party signing; for affixing to every duplicate original beyond one of any instrument acknowledged before the notary public, the notary public's certificate of the acknowledgment, $2.50 for each person making the acknowledgment; and (8) For any of the foregoing notarial acts performed for a remotely located individual under section 456-23, other than affixing a notary public's certificate to a duplicate original, $25. [CC 1859, §1276; L 1888, pt of c 6; am L 1917, c 132, §1; RL 1925, §3183; RL 1935, §5209; am L 1935, c 147, §1; RL 1945, §7676; am L 1951, c 281, §1; RL 1955, §168-16; HRS §456-17; am L 1976, c 146, §3; am L 1985, c 154, §1; am L 1995, c 141, §3; am L 2020, c 54, §16; am L 2021, c 230, §16]
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

Sections this one refers to

§456-18 Notaries who work for the government

§456-23 Remote Online Notarization

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