Secretary of American Samoa

This Act shall be constructed and applied to advance its underlying purposes, which are:

(1) to promote, serve, and protect the public interest;

(2) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing notaries;

(3) to foster ethical conduct among notaries;

(4) to enhance cross-border recognition of notarial acts;

(5) to integrate procedures for traditional notarial acts; and

(6) to unify Territorial and state notarial laws.

 

History: 2008, PL 30-18