H776 - Remote Electronic Notarization. (SL 2022-54)

Session Year 2022

Overview: S.L. 2022-54 does the following:

  • Allows, effective July 1, 2023, authorized North Carolina notaries to remotely perform electronic notarial acts using real time online communication technology. At the time of the remote electronic notarial act, the notary to the transaction would be required to be physically located in North Carolina and the principal anywhere inside the United States or, in certain circumstances, outside the United States.
  • Reauthorizes, effective July 8, 2022, temporary use of the emergency video authorization to perform remote notarizations until June 30, 2023.

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