If you have a storefront business open to the public, where people come to you for your services, you can't discriminate. You must notarize for anyone who makes a proper request (e,g, no backdating, etc.) and pays the prescribed fee. There is no regulation regarding requirements for other services, like travel to them. If you don't want to accept the full scope of a job, it's the travel you're refusing, not the actual notarizing. Once you're in the same space, so to speak, you can't refuse, if it's a proper request.
This is per CA law, but I'd be surprised if other states had more rigid restrictions. Some may not address the issue at all.
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