S 3692: Requires all banking organizations to have a notary public available during business hours; permits banking organizations to charge a fee for such service.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3692 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Banks AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to requiring all banking organizations to have a notary public available during business hours The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section 6-q to 2 read as follows: 3 § 6-q. Notary publics; required. Every banking organization shall have 4 a person qualified as a notary public in this state on staff and avail- 5 able on the premises of each facility of such banking organization 6 during regular business hours. Such banking organization shall have the 7 option to charge a nominal fee, not to exceed any fee established in 8 law, for any notary services provided. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02431-01-5