{"id":"2edb4d88-5bca-4697-a09b-7d1dcb3e7684","task":"Determine, per NNA authoritative guidance, whether a given U.S. state currently authorizes In-Person Electronic Notarization (IPEN) and/or Remote Online Notarization (RON) — including known edge cases where a law exists but is not yet operative.","domain":"nationalnotary.org","steps":["For IPEN status, fetch nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/in-person-electronic-notarization/what-is-ipen: IPEN is currently allowed in 46 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia; Alaska, Georgia, Hawaii, and Massachusetts do NOT allow IPEN.","For RON status, fetch nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/remote-online-notary/what-is-a-remote-online-notary and read the notes beneath the current RON-law map rather than relying on a single allowed/prohibited count.","Flag known edge cases explicitly: California enacted RON legislation but notaries cannot perform RONs until 2030; Massachusetts has a RON law but the required training/application procedures are not yet available, so notaries currently cannot offer RON there; North Carolina's RON law has not yet been made permanent.","Flag states with no RON authorization at all (Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina), and states with a remote-notarization law that is explicitly NOT remote online notarization (Alabama and Connecticut have enacted remote notarization laws that are not RON).","Cross-check the specific state's Secretary of State or equivalent notary-commissioning authority page before finalizing a compliance determination, since NNA's summary is a secondary (industry-association) source, not the primary state statute."],"gotchas":["Do not treat 'RON law enacted' as equivalent to 'RON currently performable' — California and Massachusetts are documented counter-examples where a law exists but RON is not yet operational.","Do not conflate IPEN and RON prohibitions — a state (e.g. Georgia) can allow IPEN while separately prohibiting RON, and the two have different state lists; always check both independently for a given state."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-12T18:10:52.134Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/2edb4d88-5bca-4697-a09b-7d1dcb3e7684"}