As used in sections 486.900 to 486.1010, the following terms and phrases mean:

(1) “Capable of independent verification”, any interested person may confirm the validity of an electronic notary‘s identity and authority through a publicly accessible system;

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 486.900

  • Acknowledgment: a notarial act in which an individual at a single time and place:

    (a) Appears in person before the notary and presents a document. See Missouri Laws 486.600

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Commission: both the granting of authority to perform notarial acts and the written evidence of the granting of authority to perform such acts. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • journal: a permanently bound book to create and preserve a chronological record of notarizations that is maintained by the notary public who performed the same notarizations. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • notarization: any official act of certification, attestation, or administration that a notary public is empowered to perform pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • notary: any person commissioned to perform notarial acts pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Secretary: the secretary of state for the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 486.600
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.

(2) “Electronic”, relates to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;

(3) “Electronic document”, information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means;

(4) “Electronic journal of notarial acts” and “electronic journal”, a chronological electronic record of notarizations that is maintained by the notary public who performed the same notarizations;

(5) “Electronic notarial act” and “electronic notarization”, an official act involving an electronic document that is performed in compliance with sections 486.900 to 486.1010 by an electronic notary public as a security procedure as defined in the uniform electronic transactions act, sections 432.200 to 432.295;

(6) “Electronic notarial certificate”, the part of, or attachment to, a notarized electronic document that, in the performance of an electronic notarization, is completed by the electronic notary, bears the notary’s registered electronic signature and seal, and states the date, venue, and facts attested to or certified by the notary in the particular electronic notarization;

(7) “Electronic notary public” and “electronic notary”, a notary public who has registered with the secretary the capability to perform electronic notarial acts;

(8) “Electronic notary seal” and “electronic seal”, information within a notarized electronic document that includes the electronic notary’s name, title, jurisdiction, and commission expiration date and generally corresponds to information in notary seals used on paper documents;

(9) “Electronic signature”, an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document;

(10) “Registered electronic notary seal”, an electronic notary seal produced by a notary in the performance of an electronic notarial act by a means that was registered with the secretary;

(11) “Registered electronic signature”, an electronic signature produced by a notary in the performance of an electronic notarial act by a means that was registered with the secretary;

(12) “Security procedure”, a procedure employed for the purpose of verifying that an electronic signature, document, or performance is that of a specific person or for detecting changes or errors in the information in an electronic document. The term includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback, or other acknowledgment procedures.

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