North Carolina § 10B-127 - Maintenance of electronic device.
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§ 10B-127. Maintenance of electronic device.
An electronic notary shall take reasonable steps to ensure that any registered device used to create the notary's electronic signature is current and has not been revoked or terminated by its issuing or registering authority. If the registration of the device used to create electronic signatures either expires or is changed during the electronic notary's term of office, the notary shall cease performing electronic notarizations until: A new device is duly issued or registered to the notary; and An electronically signed notice is sent to the Secretary that shall include the starting and expiration dates of any new registration term and any other new information at variance with information in the most recently executed electronic registration form. History (2005-391, s. 4.) Editor's Note. - Session Laws 2005-391, s. 4, enacted this section as G.S. 10B-51. It has been renumbered as this section at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes.
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