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Executive Order 2020-41

Encouraging the use of electronic signatures and remote notarization, witnessing, and visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Governor Gretchen Whitmer · Michigan (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Michigan
Level
State
Authority
MCL 10.31; MCL 30.403
Issued
2020-04-08 Apr. 8, 2020
Effective
2020-04-08
End
2020-05-06; renewed by EO 2020-74, 2020-131, 2020-173, 2020-187 (to Nov. 20, 2020); 2020 PA 246 (Dec. 2020) made statutory remote notarization available to June 30, 2021 (read as 2020-12-31)
In force
Apr. 8, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • notaries; State agencies; parties to transactions; registers of deeds
Functions reached
  • CL closings by remote notarization and e-recording
  • OP
Collection
Real Estate SEC-14

Operative words

3. Strict compliance [with] the Michigan Law on Notarial Acts, 2003 PA 238, as amended, MCL 55.261 et seq., is temporarily suspended, to the extent it requires a notary to be in the physical presence of an individual seeking the notary's services or of any required witnesses. 1. Strict compliance with rules and procedures under the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act... and the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act ('URPERA'), 2010 PA 123... is temporarily suspended to the extent necessary to permit the use of an electronic signature

Enforcement

MCL 10.33

Retrieval note

Scanned; page 2 rendered and read.

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