(1) Communication technology for remote notarial acts must provide for synchronous audio-visual feeds of sufficient audio clarity and video resolution to enable the notary public and remotely located individual to see and speak with each other. The process must provide a means for the notary public reasonably to confirm that an electronic record before the notary public is the same record in which the remotely located individual made a statement or on which the remotely located individual executed a signature.
(2) Communication technology must provide reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized access to:
(a) The live transmission of the audio-visual feeds;
(b) The methods used to perform identify verification; and
(c) The electronic record that is the subject of the remote notarial act.
(3) If a remotely located individual must exit the workflow, the individual must restart the identify verification process required under WAC
308-30-300 from the beginning.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
42.45.250. WSR 21-05-039, § 308-30-310, filed 2/11/21, effective 3/14/21.]