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Secretary of the State pitches centralized trade-name registry and a $5-to-$10 notary fee increase
Summary
The Secretary of the State's business services director told the Judiciary Committee that bills including SB 294 would centralize trade-name filings for improved online searchability, add safeguards against fraudulent filings, and raise the notary-public fee from $5 to $10 to reflect inflation and a long period with no increase.
Christopher Drake, director of business services in the Secretary of the State's office, told the Judiciary Committee on March 4 that Senate bills 294 and 262 would modernize business filings and notary oversight.
Drake said centralizing the trade-name registry was motivated by a year of live operation of a centralized system in cooperation with town clerks and that the change would make trade-name records searchable…
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