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- Jurisdiction
- Florida (Legislature) - permanent statute, context · Florida
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Fla. Const. art. III
- Issued
- 2019-06-07 June 7, 2019
- Effective
- 2020-01-01 ('this act shall take effect January 1, 2020') (read as 2020-01-01)
- End
- Permanent (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Jan. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- online notaries public
- RON service providers
- parties to notarized documents
- Functions reached
- CL closings (context: Florida needed no emergency order because online notarization was already lawful when offices closed)
- OF
- FI
- Collection
- State motor-vehicle offices, secretaries of state and recorders AGY-ST-DMV-SOS-RECORDERS
Operative words
..authorizing online notarizations; providing an exception;... creating s. 117.225, F.S.; specifying... electronic journals of online notarizations and certain audio-video communications... except for this section, which shall take effect upon becoming a law, this act shall take effect January 1, 2020. Approved by the Governor June 7, 2019.
Enforcement
Statute; Department of State registration of online notaries
Notes
Context instrument: it shows the pre-existing legal baseline in a State that did not issue an emergency remote-notarization order, and the contrast with the twenty-plus States that had to suspend their notary statutes by executive order.
Retrieval noteContext only; not an order limiting commerce.