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This law was first created in 1980. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 580 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1980 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1992, chapter 194; in 2007, chapters 269<\/a> and 590<\/a>; in 2011, chapter 746<\/a>; in 2012, chapter 566<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":233083,"object_type":"law","relational_id":66442,"identifier":"47.1-30","token":"47.1\/6\/47.1-30","url":"\/47.1-30\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/47.1-30\/","token":"47.1\/6\/47.1-30","dublin_core":{"Title":"Conflict of interests","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 47.1-30","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

No notary<\/span> shall perform any notarial act<\/span> with respect to any document, writing, or electronic document<\/span> to which the notary<\/span> or his spouse is a party<\/span>, or in which either of them has a direct beneficial interest, or where the notary<\/span> is a signatory or is named in the document to be notarized, except that a notary<\/span> named in a document for the purpose of receiving notices, or named in a document as executor, trustee, or other fiduciary, shall not, for that reason alone, be precluded from performing notarial acts<\/span> with respect to such document.\n\t\tAny notary<\/span> who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of official misconduct<\/span>.\n\t\tA notarial act<\/span> performed in violation of this section shall not automatically be void for such reason, but shall be voidable in the discretion of any court<\/span> of competent jurisdiction<\/span> upon the motion<\/span> of any person injured thereby.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCONFLICT OF INTERESTS (\u00a7 47.1-30)\n\nNo notary shall perform any notarial act with respect to any document, writing,\nor electronic document to which the notary or his spouse is a party, or in which\neither of them has a direct beneficial interest, or where the notary is a\nsignatory or is named in the document to be notarized, except that a notary\nnamed in a document for the purpose of receiving notices, or named in a document\nas executor, trustee, or other fiduciary, shall not, for that reason alone, be\nprecluded from performing notarial acts with respect to such document.\n\t\tAny notary who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of\nofficial misconduct.\n\t\tA notarial act performed in violation of this section shall not automatically\nbe void for such reason, but shall be voidable in the discretion of any court of\ncompetent jurisdiction upon the motion of any person injured thereby.\n\nHISTORY: 1980, c. 580; 1992, c. 194; 2007, cc. 269, 590; 2011, c. 746; 2012, c.\n566.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}