1. An electronic notary shall keep, maintain, protect, and provide for lawful inspection a chronological journal of notarial acts that is a permanently bound book with numbered pages.

2. If a notary is registered as an electronic notary:

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Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.945

  • 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
  • notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600

(1) The notary shall keep an electronic journal of electronic notarial acts as described in section 486.950; and

(2) The notary shall keep a record of electronic notarial acts in the permanently bound journal.

3. A notary shall maintain only one active permanently bound journal at the same time, except that a backup of each active and inactive electronic journal shall be retained by the notary in accordance with subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of section 486.950 if each respective original electronic journal is retained.

4. A notary shall keep the permanently bound journal for a period of no less than ten years from the date of the last entry.

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