Ariz. Admin. Code § 2-12-1301

Current through Register Vol. 31, No. 2, January 10, 2025

Section R2-12-1301 - Definitions

The following definitions shall apply to this Article unless context otherwise requires:

1. "Commission" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-251(2).

2. "Communication technology" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § - 263(I)(1).

3. "Credential analysis" means a process or service that meets the standards established under R2-12-1305 through which a third person affirms the validity of an identification credential through review of public or private data sources.

4. "Dynamic knowledge-based authentication assessment" means an identity assessment of an individual that is based on a set of questions formulated from public or private data sources for which the individual has not provided a prior answer.

5. "Electronic" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-251(3).

6. "Electronic notarization" or "electronic notarial acts" means a notarial act performed with respect to an electronic record in accordance with Article 12.

7. "Electronic record" means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received or stored by electronic means.

8. "Electronic seal" means an electronic image that contains information attached to or logically associated with an electronic record and that contains the words "notary public", the name of the county in which the notary public is commissioned, the notary public's name as it appears on the notarial commission, the commission number and the expiration date of the notarial commission.

9. "Identification credential" means an identification card or document that constitutes "satisfactory evidence of identity" as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-255.

10. "Identity proofing" means a process or service that meets the standards established under R2-12-1305 through which a third person affirms the identity of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information from public or private data sources.

11. "Multi-factor authentication" means a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials to verify the user's identity for a login or other transaction.

12. "Notarial act" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § 41-251(6).

13. "Person" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § - 41-251(10).

14. "Personal knowledge" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § 41-255(A).

15. "Remotely located individual" means the same as defined in A.R.S. § 41-263(I)(5).

16. "Remote online notarization" or "remote online notarial act" means a notarial act performed by means of communication technology.

17. "Remote presentation" means transmission to a notary public through communication technology of an image of a remotely located individual's identification credential that is of sufficient quality to enable the notary public to reasonably identify the remotely located individual and to perform credential analysis.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R2-12-1301

Adopted by final rulemaking at 26 A.A.R. 537, effective 3/19/2020. Amended by final rulemaking at 28 A.A.R. 719, effective 3/24/2022.