Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 7 - SECRETARY OF STATE
Article 43 - NOTARIES PUBLIC
Section 7-43-23 - Record retention and repositories
Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) Each journal shall be retained for at least 10 years after the last notarial act chronicled in the journal. Each audiovisual recording shall be retained for at least 10 years after the recording is made.
(b) Each notary public who maintains a notary public journal in an electronic format shall meet the following requirements:
(c) On the death or adjudication of incompetency of a current or former notary public, the notary public's personal representative or guardian or any other person knowingly in possession of a journal or an audiovisual recording shall perform one of the following:
(d) A notary public, a guardian, conservator, or agent of a notary public, or a personal representative of a deceased notary public may, by written contract, engage a third party to act as a repository to provide the storage required by this regulation if a third party has verified to the secretary under penalty of perjury that the party meets the requirements specified in this regulation. The contract shall meet either of the following requirements: