There is nothing in the Illinois Notary Public Act that forbids a bank from charging a $1 fee only to non-customers. The National Notary Association’s The Notary Public Code of Professional Responsibility, states that notaries should not discriminate between customers noncustomers, but that guidance is not binding (“[t]he Notary shall not base the charging or waiving of a fee for performing a notarial act, or the amount of the fee, on whether the signer is a client or non-client, or a customer or on customer, of the Notary or the Notary’s employer”).
Is it a bad practice to charge a notary fee to non-customers if we do not charge a fee to our customers?
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