How to Become a Notary in Massachusetts: Requirements, Fees and Bond
Massachusetts notaries are commissioned through: Secretary of the Commonwealth, Public Records Division (appointed by the Governor with the Governor's Council). The commission term is not stated as a single figure in the official source. Whether a bond is required was not confirmed from the official source. Fields shown as not verified were not found on the official source; check the source page below.
| State | Massachusetts |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | MA |
| Commissioning office | Secretary of the Commonwealth, Public Records Division (appointed by the Governor with the Governor's Council) |
| Commission term | Not verified from the official source |
| Surety bond required | Not verified from the official source |
| Bond amount | Not verified from the official source |
| Application fee | Not verified from the official source |
| Maximum fee, acknowledgment | Not verified from the official source |
| Maximum fee, jurat | Not verified from the official source |
| Fee note | A $60 commission fee appeared in a search extract of an old page marked 'confirm', so it is not used; the current amount was not verified. Statutory fee amounts for notarial acts (G.L. c. 262, s. 41) were not confirmed; notarizing absentee ballot envelopes and certain veterans' benefit claims must be free. |
| Remote online notarization (RON) allowed | Not verified from the official source |
| Maximum RON fee | Not verified from the official source |
| Training required | Not verified from the official source |
| Exam required | Not verified from the official source |
| Minimum age | 18 |
| Residency rule | Lives or works in the Commonwealth; application needs 4 signatures from known members of the community |
| Official source | https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-to-become-a-notary-public |
| Additional official sources | https://www.mass.gov/executive-orders/no-455-revised-standards-of-conduct-for-notaries-public |
| Last verified | not re-fetched |
| Notes on how the row was compiled | not re-fetched; value from a search extract of the official page. Direct fetch of this page returned HTTP 403; figures come from search extracts of the page and Executive Order 455. Retry on 2026-10-12 also failed; the age and residency rules are kept from search extract of https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-to-become-a-notary-public. The application fee is null because the page is old and the $60 could not be confirmed. RON status is null because no explicit statement of availability was read. Not found, so null: term, bond, fee caps, RON fee cap, training, exam. |
Official source (plain text, copy into your browser): https://www.mass.gov/how-to/apply-to-become-a-notary-public
Last verified: not re-fetched