HRS §46-29
County officers can take oaths and acknowledgments for free
This section lets certain county officers, like the police chief, treasurer, finance director, or clerk, take oaths or acknowledgments for documents that must be filed with them for a license or other action. They must do this for free and keep records like notaries do. You can still choose to use a regular notary and pay their fees instead.
counties
The statute, as written — Certain notarial powers conferred upon county officers
Wherever by law any affidavit under oath or any statement or other document to be acknowledged is required to be filed with the chief of police, treasurer, director of finance, clerk, or council of any county as a condition to the granting of any license or the performance of any act by any person, or by any county officer, the chief of police, treasurer, director of finance, or clerk, their deputy or deputies, of the county, shall take the oath or acknowledgment, free of charge, keeping records thereof as required by law of notaries public; provided that nothing herein shall prevent any person desiring so to do from making the oath or acknowledgment before any duly authorized notary public, subject to the notary's legal fees therefor.
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