Missouri Laws 486.1185 – Electronic journal recording requirements
1. For every remote online notarial act, the remote online notary shall record in the electronic journal at the time of notarization the following:
(1) The date and time of day of the remote online notarial act;
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.1185
- Credible witness: an honest, reliable, and impartial person who personally knows an individual appearing before a notary and takes an oath or affirmation from the notary to vouch for that individual's identity. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- journal: a permanently bound book to create and preserve a chronological record of notarizations that is maintained by the notary public who performed the same notarizations. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- notarization: any official act of certification, attestation, or administration that a notary public is empowered to perform pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Regular place of work or business: a stationary office or workspace where one spends all or some of one's working or business hours. See Missouri Laws 486.600
- Requester of fact: a person who asks the notary public to perform a copy certification. See Missouri Laws 486.600
(2) The type of remote online notarial act;
(3) The type, title, or a description of the document or proceeding;
(4) The electronic signature, printed name, and address of each principal;
(5) The printed name and address of each requester of fact;
(6) The evidence of identity of each principal in the form of either:
(a) A statement that the person is personally known to the notary;
(b) A notation of the type of identification document, its issuing agency, its serial or identification number, and its date of issuance or expiration;
(c) The electronic signature, printed name, and address of each credible witness swearing or affirming to the principal’s identity, and for credible witnesses who are not personally known to the notary, a description of the identification documents relied on by the notary; or
(d) In the case of an electronic journal, a recognized biometric identifier, in accordance with subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of section 486.1190;
(7) The fee, if any, charged for the remote online notarial act;
(8) The address where the remote online notarial act was performed, if not the address of the notary’s regular place of work or business; and
(9) The name of the program or software any authority issuing or registering the means used to create the electronic signature that was notarized and the source of this authority’s license, if any.
2. A remote online notary shall not record a Social Security number or credit card number in the journal.
3. A remote online notary may record in the journal the circumstances for not performing or completing any requested remote online notarial act.