{"id":"SEC-14-026","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"14","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer","authority":"MCL 10.31; MCL 30.403","instrument":"Executive Order 2020-41","title":"Encouraging the use of electronic signatures and remote notarization, witnessing, and visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic","dateIssued":"2020-04-08","effective":"2020-04-08","end":"2020-05-06; renewed by EO 2020-74, 2020-131, 2020-173, 2020-187 (to Nov. 20, 2020); 2020 PA 246 (Dec. 2020) made statutory remote notarization available to June 30, 2021","startDate":"2020-04-08","endDate":"2020-12-31","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["notaries; State agencies; parties to transactions; registers of deeds"],"clause":"3. Strict compliance [with] the Michigan Law on Notarial Acts, 2003 PA 238, as amended, MCL 55.261 et seq., is temporarily suspended, to the extent it requires a notary to be in the physical presence of an individual seeking the notary\u0027s services or of any required witnesses. 1. Strict compliance with rules and procedures under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act... and the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act (\u0027URPERA\u0027), 2010 PA 123... is temporarily suspended to the extent necessary to permit the use of an electronic signature","enforcement":"MCL 10.33","functions":["CL closings by remote notarization and e-recording","OP"],"notes":"","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2019-2020/executiveorder/pdf/2020-EO-41.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":366760,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-14","url":"/library/SEC-14-026","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-14-026","citation":"Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Executive Order 2020-41 (Apr. 8, 2020) (Ex. SEC-14-026)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["SEC-14-024","SEC-14-023","SEC-14-074","SEC-14-025"]}