Arizona Administrative Code › Title 2 - ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 12 - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE › Article 13 - REMOTE ONLINE NOTARIZATION › Section R2-12-1301 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to this Article unless
				  context otherwise requires:
1.
				"Commission" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-251(2).
2. "Communication technology" means the same
				as defined in A.R.S. § - 263(I)(1).
3. "Credential analysis" means a process or
				service that meets the standards established under
				R2-12-1305
				through which a third person affirms the validity of an identification
				credential through review of public or private data sources.
4. "Dynamic knowledge-based authentication
				assessment" means an identity assessment of an individual that is based on a
				set of questions formulated from public or private data sources for which the
				individual has not provided a prior answer.
5. "Electronic" means the same as defined in
				A.R.S. § - 41-251(3).
6.
				"Electronic notarization" or "electronic notarial acts" means a notarial act
				performed with respect to an electronic record in accordance with Article
				12.
7. "Electronic record" means
				information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored
				by electronic means.
8. "Electronic
				seal" means an electronic image that contains information attached to or
				logically associated with an electronic record and that contains the words
				"notary public", the name of the county in which the notary public is
				commissioned, the notary public's name as it appears on the notarial
				commission, the commission number and the expiration date of the notarial
				commission.
9. "Identification
				credential" means an identification card or document that constitutes
				"satisfactory evidence of identity" as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-255.
10. "Identity proofing" means a process or
				service that meets the standards established under
				R2-12-1305
				through which a third person affirms the identity of a remotely located
				individual by a review of personal information from public or private data
				sources.
11. "Multi-factor
				authentication" means a security system that requires more than one method of
				authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user's
				identity for a login or other transaction.
12. "Notarial act" means the same as defined
				in A.R.S. §
									41-251(6).
13. "Person" means the same as defined in
				A.R.S. § - 41-251(10).
14.
				"Personal knowledge" means the same as defined in A.R.S. §
									41-255(A).
15. "Remotely located individual" means the
				same as defined in A.R.S. §
									41-263(I)(5).
16. "Remote online notarization" or "remote
				online notarial act" means a notarial act performed by means of communication
				technology.
17. "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.