South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 01 - Notaries Public
Section 18-1-11.1 - Notarial act--Video communication technology--Requirements.

18-1-11.1. Notarial act--Video communication technology--Requirements.
A notarial officer in this state, while located in this state, may perform a notarial act executed on a tangible document by a person not in the physical presence of the notarial officer, but observed by the notarial officer through means of video communication technology, if the notarial officer:
(1)Has personal knowledge of the identity of a person through dealings sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the person has the identity being claimed;
(2)Affixes the notarial officer's signature to the original tangible document executed by the person;
(3)Indicates in the notarial certificate the remote location of the person executing the document;
(4)Indicates in the notarial certificate that the notarial act involved a statement made or a signature executed by a person not in the physical presence of the notarial officer, but appearing by means of video communication technology; and
(5)Is able reasonably to confirm that the document before the notarial officer is the same document in which the person made the statement or on which the person executed a signature.

Source: SL 2019, ch 100, §2; SL 2021, ch 89, § 2.

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