Is personal appearance required in an electronic notary act?
Yes. When an electronic notary performs an electronic notarization, the principal and the electronic notary shall be in each other’s physical presence during the entire electronic notarization so that the principal and the electronic notary can see, hear, communicate with, and give identification documents to each other without the use of electronic devices such as telephones, computers, PDAs, blackberries, iPods, video cameras, facsimile machines, etc.
