Illinois Governor Enacts Remote Notarization Order; Real Estate Transactions to Continue

a. The two-way audio-video communication technology must allow for direct, contemporaneous interaction between the individual signing the document ("the signatory") and the witness by sight and sound;

b. The two-way audio-video communication technology must be recorded and preserved by the signatory or the signatory's designee for a period of at least three years;

c. The signatory must attest to being physically located in Illinois during the two-way audio- video communication;

d. The witness must attest to being physically located in Illinois during the two-way audio­video communication;

e. The signatory must affirmatively state on the two-way audio-video communication what document the signatory is signing;

f. Each page of the document being witnessed must be shown to the witness on the two­way audio-video communication technology in a means clearly legible to the witness and initialed by the signatory in the presence of the witness;

g. The act of signing must be captured sufficiently up close on the two-way audio-video communication for the witness to observe;

h. The signatory must transmit by fax or electronic means a legible copy of the entire signed document directly to the witness no later than the day after the document is signed;

i. The witness must sign the transmitted copy of the document as a witness and transmit the signed copy of the document back via fax or electronic means to the signatory within 24 hours of receipt; and

j. If necessary, the witness may sign the original signed document as of the date of the original execution by the signatory provided that the witness receives the original signed document together with the electronically witnessed copy within thirty days from the date of the remote witnessing.