[WSBAPT] Question about remote notary

Tue Apr 7 10:32:06 PDT 2020

I thought that at first but Nestor’s emails have me reconsidering. The new WA RON statue says a “WA notary” can do RON. The point of the new law is to let us WA notaries do RONs.  It doesn’t say anything to prohibit a Florida notary from doing a RON for a person in WA. And the full faith and credit clause would apparently give the RON by a Florida notary legitimacy in WA.

Ronda

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On Apr 7, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Candace Wilkerson <cwilkerson at wongfleming.com> wrote:

But we still can’t get around the WA requirement for WA-licensed notaries unless such a notary is licensed in both Florida and Washington, right?

Candace Wilkerson

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They have witnesses that join the platform

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And what about the witnesses….

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https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/committee_newsletters/banking/2019/201907/fa_2/

The above website by ABA provides some insight into RONs.

There seem to be electronic endorsed notaries who notarize electronic documents online where everything is digital, including digital signatures.

A RON notary and the signer is in two physical places but connected through an audio/visual platform at the same time during the signing. My understanding with RON and looking at the revised RCW 42.45 and WAC 308-30 the notary must be commissioned with an electronic endorsement here in WA.   My question is if a person signs in front of a RON notary, does the signer mails his or her signed originals to marry up with the RON’s certificate for a complete document? Or will the Ron expect to mail his or her certificate to the signer to marry up with the original signed document?  Not sure what other procedures people have thought about.

I looked through some videos too about RONs.  My worry that RON may create confusion with clients to make it practical. Especially those who are computer or internet challenged.  Those who are internet savvy will not have a problem.

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One thing I have recently realized (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that for RON to work, you need not have a Washington notary involved. It seems to me that all our clients need to do right now to execute a power of attorney or deed, etc., is to go online to one of these companies like NotaryCam or Safedocs (that the DOL listed) and have them notarize the document (for a fee of around $25). All their RON notaries for that self-serve option are commissioned in Virginia, which was the first state to authorize RON in 2012. Full faith and credit laws are already existing in most of the states regarding notaries and the federal government apparently is enacting one for RON in the next few days that is nationwide. At least this is what I heard from a webinar by NotaryCam today.

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Correct--the Department of Licensing has not even figured out which companies are approved as the platform for remote online notarization. DOL stated in an email to me yesterday:

Given the immediate effect of the remote notarization, the department has not had time to vet individual companies, however we are aware of the following companies offering remote notarization services.

•          DocVerify

•          Notarize

•          NotaryCam

•          Pavaso

•          Safedocs

•          SIGNiX

•          Nexsys Clear Sign

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Quite frankly, when he issued this executive order, I thought there is no way this can be implemented in such a short time for this brief window of use. Unless I am mistaken, did the Department of Licensing’s Notary Public unit approve companies and their platform? Are procedure in place and notaries approved and trained in these platforms?

To me this was a well-intentioned knee jerk reaction not carefully thought out.

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Florida Civil-Law (International) Notary

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You also need a special license from the state specifically for electronic notarization, which requires special software.

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On Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 11:52 AM Craig Gourley <craig at glgmail.com<mailto:craig at glgmail.com>> wrote:

Governor issued order advancing to effective date to now. However if I recall correctly it was only through April 26th. Might be wrong on that.

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Subject: [WSBAPT] Question about remote notary

Are remote notarizations (e.g. via teleconferencing, etc.) allowed under Washington State law, and if so, can someone please provide me a cite or link to the authorization?  I found RCW 42.45.280, which allows remote notarizations, but unfortunately, that statute does not take effect until October.

Thanks,

John

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