Oregon · Through 2025 Edition

ORS 194.990: Criminal penalties.

(1)(a) A notary public who knowingly performs or fails to perform any act prohibited or mandated respectively by this chapter, or rules adopted by the Secretary of State under this chapter, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
      (b) Any individual not a notary public who knowingly acts as or otherwise impersonates a notary public is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
      (c) Any person who knowingly obtains, conceals, defaces or destroys the official seal, journal or official records of a notary public is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
      (d) Any person who knowingly solicits, coerces or in any way influences a notary public to commit a violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule adopted by the secretary under this chapter, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
      (2) The penalties described in subsection (1) of this section are in addition to other remedies provided by law.
      (3) The clerk of the court in which a conviction under any provision of subsection (1) of this section is had shall transmit to the Secretary of State a duly certified copy of the judgment, which is sufficient grounds for revocation of the commission of the convicted notary public.

Where this section sits in the code

05 - State Government, Government Procedures, Land Use
19. Miscellaneous Matters Related to Government and Public Affairs
Chapter 194 — Uniform Law on Notarial Acts; Unsworn Foreign Declarations

(b) Any individual not a notary public who knowingly acts as or otherwise impersonates a notary public is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(c) Any person who knowingly obtains, conceals, defaces or destroys the official seal, journal or official records of a notary public is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(d) Any person who knowingly solicits, coerces or in any way influences a notary public to commit a violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule adopted by the secretary under this chapter, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

(2) The penalties described in subsection (1) of this section are in addition to other remedies provided by law.

(3) The clerk of the court in which a conviction under any provision of subsection (1) of this section is had shall transmit to the Secretary of State a duly certified copy of the judgment, which is sufficient grounds for revocation of the commission of the convicted notary public.

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