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LEGAL AND JUDICIAL ETHICS CODES, CANONS AND RULES

sanctions on the grounds mentioned in the preceding

paragraphs (a) and (b).

SECTION

2.

Supervision

and

Monitoring

of Notaries

Public . — The Executive Judge shall at all times exercise

supervision over notaries public and shall closely monitor

their activities.

SECTION

3.

Publication

of

Revocations

and

Administrative Sanctions . — The Executive Judge shall

immediately

order

the

Clerk of Court to post in a

conspicuous place in the offices of the Executive Judge

and of the Clerk of Court the names of notaries public

who have been administratively sanctioned or whose

notarial commissions have been revoked.

SECTION 4. Death of Notary Public . — If a notary public

dies before fulfilling the obligations in Section 5(b), Rule

VI and Section 2(e), Rule VII, the Executive Judge, upon

being

notified

of

such

death, shall forthwith cause

compliance with the provisions of these sections.

RULE XII Special Provisions

SECTION 1. Punishable Acts . — The Executive Judge shall

cause the prosecution of any person who:

(a) knowingly acts or otherwise impersonates a notary

public;

(b) knowingly obtains, conceals, defaces, or destroys the

seal, notarial register, or official records of a notary public;

and

(c) knowingly solicits, coerces, or in any way influences a

notary public to commit official misconduct.

SECTION

2.

Reports

to

the

Supreme Court . — The

Executive

Judge

concerned

shall

submit

semestral

reports

to

the

Supreme

Court

on

discipline

and

prosecution of notaries public.

RULE XIII Repealing and Effectivity Provisions

SECTION

1.

Repeal .

—

All

rules and parts of rules,

including issuances of the Supreme Court inconsistent

herewith, are hereby repealed or accordingly modified.

SECTION 2. Effective Date . — These Rules shall take effect

on the first day of August 2004, and shall be published in

a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines

which provides sufficiently wide circulation.

Promulgated this 6th day of July, 2004.

(2004 Rules on Notarial Practice, A.M. No. 02-8-13-SC,

[July 6, 2004])

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