Notarize a digital drawing
There have been quite a few posts about a land surveyor signing and sealing a digital drawing, whether that is a drawing of an individual lot, a plat of a subdivision, or something else. Vermont is revising its notarization law to allow notarization of electronic documents, and the electronic notarization could be either in-person or the notary and signer could be in different places and communicate online. This last option is often called remote online notarization, or RON.
My impression is that notaries rarely conduct in-person electronic notarization, but RON is starting to become popular. I’ve never done it, but it appears that the platforms, such as DocuSign, that support RON allow a few file types as input (.pdf, .doc, .jpeg, a few more) and always provide PDFs as output.
It appears that if you wanted to digitally sign and notarize a digital drawing in a rich, powerful format such as .dwg, you would first have to convert it to pdf, which would seriously reduce what the recipient could do with it.
My question is whether you see a use case for notarizing a full-featured digital drawing like a .dwg? If the law and rules were written in a way that made it impossible to notarize a .dwg or similar file, would that bother you?
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