<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">My understanding is that in addition to your regular Notary license, you need to add this endorsement:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="https://www.dol.wa.gov/forms/659005.pdf" class="">https://www.dol.wa.gov/forms/659005.pdf</a><br class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:09 AM, Thomas M. Culbertson <<a href="mailto:tculbertson@lukins.com" class="">tculbertson@lukins.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">Because the witness issue is unresolved, and I suspect can be resolved only by legislation, I haven’t been following this too carefully, but I did notice the following: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">RCW 42.45.280 only applies to “electronic records notary publics”, which are defined at 42.45.010 (5) to be “an individual commissioned by the director to perform a notarial act with respect to electronic records.” Does that mean your run of the mill ordinary notary (like me) has to do something special to take advantage of this provision?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">If this has been covered previously on this listserv, my apologies, but frankly the older I get the less embarrassed I am by occasionally proving my ignorance. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class="">😊</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 56, 100);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">________________________________________<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">THOMAS M. CULBERTSON<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> Lukins & Annis, PS<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">717 W. Sprague Ave, Suite 1600, Spokane, WA 99201<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">(509) 455-9555</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> fax (509) 363-2500</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="mailto:tculbertson@lukins.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">tculbertson@lukins.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>