D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 17, § 2499
2499
2499.1
For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
“Acknowledgment” means a declaration by an individual that states the individual has signed a record for the purposes stated in the record, and if the record is executed in a representative capacity, that the person signed the record with proper authority and signed it as the act of the individual or entity identified in the record.
“Act” means the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts of 2018, effective December 4, 2018 (D.C. Law 22-189; D.C. Official Code § 1-1231.01 et seq.).
“District of Columbia Government Notary” means a District of Columbia government notary who is an individual applying for a notary commission on behalf of an agency of the government of the District of Columbia.
“Electronic” means relating to technology that has electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
“Electronic notary” means an individual who has received an endorsement from the Mayor to perform a notarial act with respect to electronic records under Subsection 20(i) of the Act (D.C. Official Code § 1-1231.19(i)).
“Electronic signature” means an electronic symbol, sound, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by an individual with the intent to sign the record.
“In a representative capacity” means acting as:
“Notarial act” means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or electronic record, that a notarial officer may perform under the law of the District. The term “notarial act” includes taking an acknowledgment,
administering an oath or affirmation, taking a verification on oath or affirmation, witnessing or attesting a signature, noting a protest of a negotiable instrument, taking and certifying the acknowledgment or proof of powers of attorney, mortgages, deeds, other instruments of writing, and taking affidavits to be used before any court, judge, or officer within the District.
“Notarial sealer” means:
“Notary public” means an individual commissioned by the:
“Official seal” means a physical image affixed to or embossed on a tangible record or an electronic image securely attached directly to or logically associated with an electronic record.
“ONCA” means the Office of Notary Commissions and Authentications.
“Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.
“Record” 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.
“Secretary” means the Secretary of the District of Columbia.
“Sign” means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, to:
(B) Attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process.
“Signature” means a tangible symbol or an electronic signature that evidences the signing of a record.
“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
“Tamper-evident technologies” means technologies that are designed to allow a person inspecting an electronic record to determine whether there has been any tampering with the integrity of a certificate of notarial act logically associated with a record or with the attachment or association of the notarial act with that electronic record.
“Verification on oath or affirmation” means a declaration, made by an individual on oath or affirmation before a notarial officer, that a statement in a record is true.
SOURCE: §§ 1.7 and 1.8(a) of Regulation No. 73-13, as amended by § 302 of the Notaries Public Fees Increase Act of 1983, effective June 22, 1983 (D.C. Law 5-14; 30 DCR 2632 (June 3, 1983)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 43 DCR 3365 (June 30, 1995); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 5052 (June 11, 2010); as amended by the Notaries Public Authentications and License Fee Amendment Act of 2010, effective September 24, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-223; 57 DCR 6242, 6259 (July 23, 2010)); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 9099 (July 1, 2016); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 69 DCR 012856 (October 21, 2022).