New Jersey Permanently Authorizes E-Notarizations And Remote Online Notarizations

Highlights

• New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed Assembly Bill No. 4250 into law on July 22, 2021. In addition to overhauling New Jersey's existing law governing notaries public (Notaries), the new law – New Jersey Law on Notarial Acts (Act) – permanently authorizes New Jersey Notaries to conduct in-person notarizations of electronic documents and remote online notarizations of electronic and tangible documents.
• The Act comprehensively governs the commissioning process for Notaries, including establishing initial and continuing education and initial testing requirements to be approved by the State Treasurer, who is assigned the task of administering and enforcing the Act.
• Of most interest to financial institutions and the focus of this Holland & Knight alert, however, are the provisions in Sections 13 through 19 of the Act.