In fact, the Canadian province of British Columbia has its provincial capital, Victoria, on Vancouver Island.
Example, if two people appear before you, the Notary, and sign a document with one page and you take their acknowledgments, you can charge a maximum of $20.00. If the document has two pages and there are two people signing it, you can charge $40.00 ($10. per signature in each page) Charging more than the maximum legally prescribed fees for notarial acts is reason for the Governor to suspend a Notaryâs commission. (F.S. 117.01[4][i])
At the end of that term, he must register again and pay another $60 fee. In order to recoup the $60 registration fee, a notary public would need to do 30 jobs per year and charge $2 per job.If someone pretends to be a Notary Public, that may invalidate the document being notarized.