Tennessee Code Title 8. Public Officers and Employees § 8-16-302

(1) “Appear” or “appearance” or “personally appear” means:

(2) “Credential analysis” means a process or service operating as outlined in rules promulgated by the secretary of state, through which a third person affirms the validity of a government-issued identification credential through review of public and proprietary data sources;

(3) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;

(4) “Electronic document” means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means;

(5) “Electronic notarial certificate” means the portion of a notarized electronic document that is completed by an online notary public and contains the following:

(6) “Electronic seal” means information within a notarized electronic document that confirms the online notary public's name, jurisdiction, identifying number, and commission expiration date and generally corresponds to information in notary seals used on paper documents;

(7) “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the electronic document;

(8) “Identity proofing” means a process or service operating according to criteria as outlined in rules promulgated by the secretary of state, through which a third person affirms the identity of an individual through review of personal information in public and proprietary data sources;

(9) “Notarial act” means the performance by an online notary public of a function authorized under § 8-16-112;

(10) “Online notarization” means a notarial act performed by means of two-way video and audio conference technology that meets the standards adopted under § 8-16-305;

(11) “Online notary public” means a notary public who is a commissioned notary public and has been additionally commissioned to perform online notarizations as outlined in this part;

(12) “Principal” means an individual:

(13) “Remote presentation” means transmission to the online notary public through communication technology of an image of a government-issued identification credential that is of sufficient quality to enable the online notary public to: