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• #NOTARIZED MEANING REGISTRATION#

"Notarial act" or "notarization" means any official act performed by a notary under § 47.1-12 or 47.1-13 or as otherwise authorized by law.

"Identity proofing" means a process or service that independently verifies an individual's identity in accordance with § 2.2-436. "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. "Electronic notary seal" or "electronic seal" means information within a notarized electronic document that confirms the notary's name, jurisdiction, and commission expiration date and generally corresponds to data in notary seals used on paper documents. "Electronic notary public" or "electronic notary" means a notary public who has been commissioned by the Secretary of the Commonwealth with the capability of performing electronic notarial acts under § 47.1-7. The "electronic notarial certificate" shall indicate whether the notarization was done in person or by remote online notarization.

"Electronic notarial certificate" means the portion of a notarized electronic document that is completed by the notary public, bears the notary public's signature, title, commission expiration date, and other required information concerning the date and place of the electronic notarization, and states the facts attested to or certified by the notary public in a particular notarization. "Electronic notarial act" or "electronic notarization" means an official act by a notary under § 47.1-12 or as otherwise authorized by law that involves electronic documents. "Electronic document" means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. "Document" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form, including a record as defined in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (§ 59.1-479 et seq.). "Credible witness" means 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 confirm that individual's identity. "Credential analysis" means a process or service that independently affirms the veracity of a government-issued identity credential by reviewing public or proprietary data sources and meets the standards of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. "Copy certification" means a notarial act in which a notary (i) is presented with a document that is not a public record (ii) copies or supervises the copying of the document using a photographic or electronic copying process (iii) compares the document to the copy and (iv) determines that the copy is accurate and complete.

#NOTARIZED MEANING REGISTRATION#

"Commissioned notary public" means that the applicant has completed and submitted the registration forms along with the appropriate fee to the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Secretary of the Commonwealth has determined that the applicant meets the qualifications to be a notary public and issues a notary commission and forwards same to the clerk of the circuit court, pursuant to this chapter. "Affirmation" means a notarial act, or part thereof, that is legally equivalent to an oath and in which an individual at a single time and place (i) appears in person before the notary and presents a document (ii) is personally known to the notary or identified by the notary through satisfactory evidence of identity and (iii) makes a vow of truthfulness or fidelity on penalty of perjury.

"Acknowledgment" means a notarial act in which an individual at a single time and place (i) appears in person before the notary and presents a document (ii) is personally known to the notary or identified by the notary through satisfactory evidence of identity and (iii) indicates to the notary that the signature on the document was voluntarily affixed by the individual for the purposes stated within the document and, if applicable, that the individual had due authority to sign in a particular representative capacity. As used in this title, unless the context demands a different meaning: