PROCEDURE FOR NEW NOTARY WEBINAR AND COMPLETING THE APPLICATION PROCESS
New Notary’s will receive their education via a webinar class. The New Notary classes and exam are held on the first Friday of each month. To participate in the class for NEW NOTARY we have set up the following outline:
- Obtain your BCI early as the return time is about 3 weeks. Have the results sent to yourself. This is ONLY for the Secretary of State, do not send your results to the Lake County Bar Association.
- The code is 147022.
- Pay the $130.00 registration fee at https://secure.affinipay.com/pages/lake-county-bar-association/payments
- Complete the application on our website and email it to the Bar office at kaitlyn.vanwinkle@lakecountyohio.gov
- You will receive the link to the webinar the day before the class with all other materials and information for the webinar.
- The class is on demand. You may watch the webinar at anytime on the given test day.
- Then, and PDF version of the exam will be provided. If you receive at least an 80%, you have passed the exam.
- I will then email a Certificate of Completion and Education with instruction to complete the process on the Secretary of State website.
Instructions to submit your information to the Secretary of State, once you receive your certificate of Completion and Certificate of Education:
Go to https://www.ohiosos.gov
- Click on NOTARY
- Click FILE NOTARY COMMISSION APPLICATIONS AND UPDATES
- Click CREATE USER ACCOUNT
- Click “New Notary Commission Applicant” and follow the prompts from there on.
Select file online to submit your application to the Secretary of State office.
Upload:
- A copy of your criminal record check
- A certificate from the education provider to show successful completion of the class.
- A certificate showing the grade you received on the test.
- Image of Signature.
Attachments must be uploaded as PDFs. The fee to apply is $15