§ 35:702 — Remote notarization authorized

§702. Remote notarization authorized
A. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any act in which any person or witness
appeared before a notary public using an electronic device or process which allowed all such
persons and the notary public to communicate simultaneously by sight and sound and to
which the electronic signatures of such persons, witnesses, and the notary public were affixed
on or after March 11, 2020, and before May 1, 2020, shall have the same force and effect as
if all persons, witnesses, and the notary public had been in the physical presence of each
other.
B. The provisions of Subsection A of this Section shall not apply to any testament,
trust instrument, donation inter vivos, matrimonial agreement, act modifying, waiving, or
extinguishing an obligation of final spousal support, or any amendments to such acts, or
authentic acts.
C. Any act which would constitute an authentic act but for the appearance of one or
more necessary persons via electronic means, may still be valid as an act under private
signature or an acknowledged act.
NOTE: See Acts 2020, No. 131, §3, regarding retroactive application of the Act.

Legislative History

Acts 2020, No. 131, §1, eff. June 9, 2020.