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ARTICLE · 20 JULY 2022

North Carolina Adopts Law To Permanently Allow Remote Online Notarization

Last week, Governor Cooper signed House Bill 776 that permanently codifies remote online notarization and restores emergency video notarization.

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Last week, Governor Cooper signed House Bill 776 that permanently codifies remote online notarization and restores emergency video notarization. Remote Online Notarization ("RON") will become effective on July 1, 2023, and Emergency Video Notarization ("EVN") is effective immediately.

Electronic notarization has been available in North Carolina since 2005 under the Electronic Notary Act. Under this act, regular notaries who satisfy the training and testing requirements of G.S. 10B-107 can register with the NC Secretary of State's office as "electronic notaries." Electronic notaries have the ability to perform certain notarial acts electronically; however, electronic notarization requires that the signer of the document be in the physical presence of the notary.

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