County clerks: recordkeeping: registrations.

Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, process servers, and professional photocopiers. Existing law requires those professionals to register in the county in which his or her principal place of business is located. Existing law requires the county clerk of each county to maintain a register of, and assign a unique number to, those persons, and to issue an identification card to each registrant. Existing law requires the identification cards to contain a photograph and to meet varying minimum size requirements, as specified. This bill would change the minimum size requirements of the cards to 314 by 2 inches, and would delete a provision that requires the issuance of additional cards to employees of legal document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, as specified. The bill would also specify that cards issued to partnerships or corporations be issued in the name of the partnership or corporation, and that no photograph be included. The bill would also require the inclusion of the name of the partnership or corporation on the card of an employee of a photocopier. Existing law requires a person filing for a fictitious business name to submit specified fees to the county clerk for the filing of the fictitious business name statement. Existing law requires the fees to be used in a specified manner, including to cover the costs of the county clerk in notifying registrants of the pending expiration of their fictitious business name statement. This bill would specify that a county clerk is not required to retain any returned notice of pending expiration that is returned as undeliverable by the United States Postal Service. Existing law requires the application for registration of professional photocopiers to include specified statements. This bill would require that application to be certified to be true. The bill would provide that a person or entity that knowingly provides false information is subject to specified civil penalties. Existing law requires that at least one person involved in the management of a professional photocopier be a licensed notary public. This bill would require written confirmation from a nonregistrant notary public to authorize the use of his or her commission for registration.