Okla. Stat. tit. 49, § 49-202
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Definitions
Official statutory text
DEFINITIONS. As used in the Remote Online Notary Act:
1. "Communication technology" means an electronic device or
process that allows a notary public and a remotely located
individual to communicate with each other by sight and sound;
2. "Credential analysis" means a process or service that meets
the standards under Section 4 of this act through which a third
person affirms the validity of an identification credential through
review of public or private data sources;
3. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical,
digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar
capabilities;
4. "Electronic record" means information that is created,
generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic
means;
5. "Electronic seal" means an electronic image containing
information attached to or logically associated with an electronic
record that contains the notary public's name exactly as indicated
on the notary's commission, the words "State of Oklahoma" and
"Notary Public", and the notary public's commission number and the
date of expiration of the notary public's commission;
6. "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol or
process attached to or logically associated with an electronic
record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign
the electronic record;
7. "Foreign state" means a jurisdiction other than the United
States, a state or a federally recognized Indian tribe;
8. "Identity proofing" means a process or service that meets
the standards under Section 4 of this act through which a third
person provides a notary public with a means to verify the identity
of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information
from public or private data sources;
9. "Notarial act" or "notarization" means an act that a notary
public is authorized to perform under subsection A of Section 6 of
Title 49 of the Oklahoma Statutes or under any other law of this
state;
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10. "Outside the United States" means a location outside the
geographic boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands and any territory, insular possession or other
location subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;
11. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,
statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability
company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government
or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other
legal or commercial entity;
12. "Personal knowledge" means knowledge through dealings
sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the individual has
the identity claimed, and "personally known" and "personally knows"
have corresponding meanings;
13. "Principal" means a remotely located individual whose
signature is notarized in a remote online notarization, whether in
an individual or representative capacity, or who makes an oath,
affirmation or acknowledgment in a remote online notarization, other
than in the capacity of a witness;
14. "Remote online notarization" or "remote online notarial
act" means a notarial act performed by means of communication
technology under this act;
15. "Remote presentation" means transmission to a notary public
through communication technology of an image of a remotely located
individual's identification credential that is of sufficient quality
to enable the notary public to reasonably identify the remotely
located individual and to perform credential analysis;
16. "Remotely located individual" means an individual who is
not in the physical presence of the notary public who performs a
remote online notarization; and
17. "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.
1. "Communication technology" means an electronic device or
process that allows a notary public and a remotely located
individual to communicate with each other by sight and sound;
2. "Credential analysis" means a process or service that meets
the standards under Section 4 of this act through which a third
person affirms the validity of an identification credential through
review of public or private data sources;
3. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical,
digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar
capabilities;
4. "Electronic record" means information that is created,
generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic
means;
5. "Electronic seal" means an electronic image containing
information attached to or logically associated with an electronic
record that contains the notary public's name exactly as indicated
on the notary's commission, the words "State of Oklahoma" and
"Notary Public", and the notary public's commission number and the
date of expiration of the notary public's commission;
6. "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol or
process attached to or logically associated with an electronic
record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign
the electronic record;
7. "Foreign state" means a jurisdiction other than the United
States, a state or a federally recognized Indian tribe;
8. "Identity proofing" means a process or service that meets
the standards under Section 4 of this act through which a third
person provides a notary public with a means to verify the identity
of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information
from public or private data sources;
9. "Notarial act" or "notarization" means an act that a notary
public is authorized to perform under subsection A of Section 6 of
Title 49 of the Oklahoma Statutes or under any other law of this
state;
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10. "Outside the United States" means a location outside the
geographic boundaries of the United States, Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands and any territory, insular possession or other
location subject to the jurisdiction of the United States;
11. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,
statutory trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability
company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government
or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other
legal or commercial entity;
12. "Personal knowledge" means knowledge through dealings
sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the individual has
the identity claimed, and "personally known" and "personally knows"
have corresponding meanings;
13. "Principal" means a remotely located individual whose
signature is notarized in a remote online notarization, whether in
an individual or representative capacity, or who makes an oath,
affirmation or acknowledgment in a remote online notarization, other
than in the capacity of a witness;
14. "Remote online notarization" or "remote online notarial
act" means a notarial act performed by means of communication
technology under this act;
15. "Remote presentation" means transmission to a notary public
through communication technology of an image of a remotely located
individual's identification credential that is of sufficient quality
to enable the notary public to reasonably identify the remotely
located individual and to perform credential analysis;
16. "Remotely located individual" means an individual who is
not in the physical presence of the notary public who performs a
remote online notarization; and
17. "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.
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