ENROLLED
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 903
BY REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MILLER
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 35:626(B) and to enact R.S. 35:626(C), relative to notaries; to
3 provide relative to remote online notarization; to provide relative to execution of
4 certain notarial acts; and to provide for related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 35:626(B) is hereby amended and reenacted and R.S. 35:626(C) is
7 hereby enacted to read as follows:
8 ยง626. Location of notary, parties, and witnesses; location of remote online notarial
9 act
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11 B. A remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in any parish of this
12 state where any party is physically located at the time of the remote online
13 notarization. If no party was physically located in this state at the time of the remote
14 online notarization, the remote online notarial act is deemed to be executed in the
15 parish where the notary public is physically located at the time of the remote online
16 notarization if the notary public has jurisdiction in that parish.
17 C. An action on a contract that is a remote online notarial act may be brought
18 in any parish in which a party was physically located at the time of the remote online
19 notarization.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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