Illinois Statutes Chapter 5. General Provisions § 312/6-102.5. Remote notarial acts

(1) is personally known to the notary;

(2) is identified upon the oath or affirmation of a credible witness personally known to the notary; or

(3) is identified on the basis of identification documents. Identification documents are documents that are (i) valid at the time of the notarial act, (ii) issued by a State agency, federal government agency, or consulate, and (iii) bearing the photographic image of the individual's face and signature of the individual.

(1) Two-way audio-video communication technology must allow for remotely located notaries and principals to engage in direct, contemporaneous interaction between the individual signing the document (signatory) and the witness by sight and sound.

(2) 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 3 years.

(3) The signatory must attest to being physically located in Illinois during the two-way audio-video communication.

(4) The signatory must affirmatively state on the two-way audio-video communication what document the signatory is signing.

(5) Each page of the document being witnessed must be shown to the witness on the two-way audio-video communication technology in a means clearly legible to the witness.

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

(1) The signatory must transmit by overnight mail, fax, or electronic means a legible copy of the entire signed document directly to the notary no later than the day after the document is signed.

(2) The notary must sign the transmitted copy of the document as a witness and transmit the signed copy of the document back to the signatory via overnight mail, fax, or electronic means within 24 hours after receipt.

(3) If necessary, the notary 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 30 days after the date of the remote notarization.