2418.1 Communication technology for remote notarial acts must provide for synchronous (i.e., existing or occurring at the same time) 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.

2418.2 Communication technology must provide reasonable security measures to prevent unauthorized access to:

(a) The live transmission of the audio-visual feeds;

(b) The processes used to perform identify proofing; and

(c) If applicable, the electronic record that is the subject of the remote notarial act.

2418.3 If a remotely located individual must exit the identification verification process, the individual must restart the identify verification process required under Section 2417 from the beginning.

SOURCE: §§ 24.1, 24.2, and 24.3 of Regulation No. 73-13, approved May 24, 1973, as published at 19 DCR 1147 (June 11, 1973); as amended at 25 DCRR §§ 24.1, 24.2, and 24.3; as amended by the New Columbia Statehood Initiative and Omnibus Boards and Commissions Reform Amendment Act of 2014, effective May 2, 2015 (D.C. Law 20-271; 62 DCR 1884 (February 13, 2015)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 69 DCR 012856 (October 21, 2022); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 70 DCR 014646 (November 3, 2023).