This page is a notary scorecard. It is not a mailbox directory. Form 1583 is the Postal Service form you sign so a mailbox store can receive your mail. It appears here because mailbox signup is a common reason a Connecticut owner needs a notary this week. The form is the use-case. The mailbox store is someone else’s product.
Legal
This page is not legal advice. An in-state commission is a notary license from Connecticut. Do not paste a California “cannot RON” rule onto Connecticut. Connecticut has a different product. Public Act 23-28, now C.G.S. § 3-95b, lets a Connecticut notary take a remote acknowledgment of a printed document: live video, wet ink, then mail or deliver the original to be notarized. That is not a same-session electronic RON checkout. A bank, a commercial mailbox (CMRA), or the Postal Service still decides whether this packet may be remote.
Not legal advice.
The Connecticut grade that is not a company letter
We grade the state rule first. Remote online notarization (RON) is a video session with a notary. In Texas or Florida that phrase means a consumer checkout and the document is notarized electronically. Connecticut’s live in-state video path is remote ink-signature notarization. A company cannot turn a Connecticut notarization into a Proof-style e-seal. It also cannot erase the remote ink-signature law.
Connecticut (the state rule)
State rule · September 2026- In-state electronic RON
- F
- In-state remote ink-signature
- C
- Signer RON access
- B
- Walk-in / mobile backup
- C
Primary sources: Connecticut Secretary of the State, Notary Public Licensing; C.G.S. § 3-95b; OLR act summary, Public Act 23-28. Country context: NASS and NNA. Secondary vendor map: Proof, July 8, 2026, not the country authority.
Remote ink-signature notarization is live. An e-seal checkout is not.
The Secretary of the State’s Notary Public Licensing page is blunt. On June 12, 2023, the Governor signed Public Act 23-28, An Act Concerning Remote Notarial Acts, effective October 1, 2023.
- Remote ink-signature notarization uses communication technology, meaning live sight and sound, for a person who is not in the room. § 3-95b(a) through (b). The signer signs the printed original in wet ink, then mails or otherwise delivers it. The notary adds the commission signature. § 3-95b(d). The date and time are when the notary watched the signature. § 3-95b(e).
- Electronic remote online notarization is a tamper-evident electronic seal on an electronic file, finished in the same session. That is the Proof or NotaryLive product. § 3-95b(f)(1) does not require a Connecticut notary to perform a remote act on an electronic record. NNA’s overview says Alabama and Connecticut cover printed, ink-signed documents only.
A Hartford owner can pay $25 and still have to mail the printed document. The Secretary of the State, Business Services Division, licenses notaries. A new commission is $120, a renewal is $60, and the term is five years. § 3-95b(g) lets the Secretary adopt remote regulations. A live provider registry or an e-RON signup is not part of that licensing page.
C.G.S. § 3-95 caps a notarial act at not more than five dollars, plus thirty-five cents a mile. NNA’s 2026 fee table states $10 and limits that remote line to printed, ink-signed documents only. Connecticut does not publish a $25 remote ink-signature checkout. About $25 a session, on official pages from August 2026, is a company sticker.
§ 3-95b(b)(2) wants personal knowledge, an unexpired government photo ID with the person’s name and signature, two different types of identity proofing, or a credible witness. If the notary is not satisfied, use a mobile notary or a walk-in. Outside Connecticut or the United States, § 3-95b(c) requires a Connecticut court or government desk, Connecticut property, a deal substantially connected to Connecticut, or another allowed purpose.
Connecticut does not publish a 10-year remote recording period for § 3-95b. Connecticut’s live in-state path is the mailed original.
§ 3-95b(i) keeps listed records off remote acknowledgment. Public Act 24-97 added one more item. A remote acknowledgment of them is ineffective and is unauthorized practice of law under C.G.S. § 51-88. The list is wills, codicils, trusts, and trust instruments; health-care instructions, living wills, health-care representative documents, and their self-proving affidavits; powers of attorney under C.G.S. § 1-350a; standby-guardian and decision-making designations, mutual distribution agreements, estate-division agreements, and disclaimers; and a real estate closing under C.G.S. § 51-88a. That closing is a mortgage loan on Connecticut real property when lender’s or mortgagee’s title insurance is issued, or a paid change of ownership. Home-equity lines and loans with no lender title-insurance policy sit outside it. Connecticut is an attorney-closing state.
Proof’s July 8, 2026 vendor map, labeled secondary, says Connecticut blocks RON for local real estate closings, including by out-of-state notaries. The statute’s ban and that map stay separate.
Statute notes
The Secretary of the State’s Notary Public Licensing page is blunt. On June 12, 2023, the Governor signed Public Act 23-28, An Act Concerning Remote Notarial Acts. The act became effective October 1, 2023. The Notary Public Manual was updated for that act. Those sentences do not sell a webcam e-seal card.
C.G.S. § 3-95b is the statute that runs the in-state video job. Mixing it into one “Connecticut RON” checkout is how a Hartford owner pays $25 and still has to mail the printed document.
- Remote ink-signature notarization is a notarial act using communication technology for a person who is not in the room. Communication technology means live sight and sound. § 3-95b(a)–(b). The signer signs the printed original in wet ink during that call. Then the signer mails or otherwise delivers that original to the notary. The notary adds the commission signature and notarizes the document. § 3-95b(d). The date and time of the act are the date and time the notary watched the signature on video. § 3-95b(e). The Office of Legislative Research summary says the same thing in plain English: identify the person on live video, receive the printed document, notarize it, mail it back.
- Electronic remote online notarization is a tamper-evident electronic seal on an electronic file, finished in the same session. That is the Proof or NotaryLive consumer product. § 3-95b(f)(1) says the statute does not require a Connecticut notary to perform a remote act on an electronic record. NNA’s overview: Alabama and Connecticut have remote laws for printed, ink-signed documents only. Do not tell a Connecticut-commissioned notary to finish a same-session Proof checkout.
The ID check is not a courtesy box. § 3-95b(b)(2) wants personal knowledge, an unexpired government photo ID with the person’s name and signature, two different types of identity proofing, or a credible witness. If the notary is not satisfied, the notary does not have to finish. That is when a mobile notary or a walk-in becomes the product that can finish.
If the signer is physically outside Connecticut, or outside the United States, § 3-95b(c) adds a purpose test. The record must be meant for a Connecticut court or government desk, involve Connecticut property or a deal substantially connected to Connecticut, or otherwise be allowed. Not every out-of-state document qualifies.
The Secretary of the State, Business Services Division, licenses Connecticut notaries. The licensing page we retrieved: a new commission is $120. A renewal is $60. The term is five years. Those are commission prices. They are not a session sticker. The Secretary may adopt regulations for the remote path. § 3-95b(g). We did not retrieve a live provider registry or an e-RON signup on that page.
C.G.S. § 3-95 prints the notary-act cap we can quote from the current compiler: not more than five dollars, plus thirty-five cents a mile. NNA’s 2026 fee table prints $10 and limits that remote line to printed, ink-signed documents only. We use the statute. Connecticut does not publish a $25 remote ink-signature checkout. Company starting prices we cite on the directory, about $25 a session, are still the official pages retrieved August 2026. Those are company stickers, not a Connecticut fee schedule.
We did not read a printed year-count in § 3-95b for an audio-visual recording. Connecticut does not publish a 10-year remote recording period. Other states print that number for their e-RON product. Connecticut’s live in-state path is the mailed original.
Hard bans on remote acknowledgment
§ 3-95b(i) keeps a list of records off remote acknowledgment. Public Act 24-97 added one more item. A remote acknowledgment on any of these is ineffective. The statute also treats it as unauthorized practice of law under C.G.S. § 51-88. That is a statute line, not a blog slogan. It is not legal advice. Localize the document before you buy a video session.
- Wills, codicils, trusts, and trust instruments.
- Health-care instructions, living wills, health-care representative documents, and the self-proving affidavits that go with them.
- Powers of attorney, as defined in C.G.S. § 1-350a.
- Standby-guardian designations, decision-making designations, mutual distribution agreements, estate-division agreements, and disclaimers.
- A real estate closing as defined in C.G.S. § 51-88a. That means a mortgage loan secured by Connecticut real property when lender’s or mortgagee’s title insurance is issued, or a deal that pays to change ownership of Connecticut real property. Home-equity lines and loans with no lender title-insurance policy sit outside that definition. Connecticut is an attorney-closing state. Do not buy a video session to argue with the closing desk.
Proof’s July 8, 2026 vendor map, labeled secondary, says Connecticut blocks RON for local real estate closings, including by out-of-state notaries. The statute’s own closing ban is the in-state remote-acknowledgment line. The vendor map is a separate closing warning. We keep both. We do not flatten them into “video is fine for every Connecticut document.”
What actually needs a notary on a Connecticut LLC / bank stack
A Connecticut LLC is formed by filing a Certificate of Organization with the Secretary of the State. C.G.S. § 34-247: one or more organizers deliver that certificate. The live Certificate of Organization form we retrieved tells the organizer to sign under the penalties of false statement. We did not read a notarization requirement on that statute or those form instructions. People still show up asking for a notary because a bank, a processor, a landlord, or a mailbox asked for a sworn statement on a different printed document that sits next to the LLC.
| Document | Typical notary question | Video vs an ink signature |
|---|---|---|
| CT LLC Certificate of Organization (C.G.S. § 34-247) | Usually none for the Secretary of the State filing itself. Live statute and Certificate of Organization instructions: organizer signature under penalties of false statement. We did not read a notarization requirement on those pages. | Do not buy a video session because a blog said “LLCs need a notary.” Confirm the live form. A Connecticut remote ink-signature session would still be wet ink plus mail, not an e-seal checkout. |
| Bank signup documents (resolutions, signature cards, sworn statements) | The bank’s current checklist. Some desks accept an out-of-state video e-RON. Some want a printed document signed in ink and a Connecticut notarization. | Ask the desk before you pay $25. A Connecticut-commissioned notary cannot finish a same-session e-RON product. Remote ink-signature notarization is video, then mail. If they printed “in person” or “wet ink today,” that is a mobile notary or a walk-in. The bank sets its own notary rule. |
| PS Form 1583 (mailbox signup) | Yes, a notary public licensed in a U.S. state, territory, possession, or DC, or the mailbox store employee in person. June 2024 form. | The form’s own note allows a live video call. A Connecticut signer can use an out-of-state video e-RON if the store accepts that notarization. A Connecticut-commissioned notary cannot finish that as a same-session e-seal. Remote ink-signature mail is a different, slower product. Using a random picture pasted on the PDF is a common reject. See the 1583 page. |
| Power of attorney or will | § 3-95b(i) keeps wills, codicils, trusts, and powers of attorney off remote acknowledgment for a Connecticut notary. A remote acknowledgment on those records is ineffective and is treated as unauthorized practice of law under § 51-88. | Do not buy a Connecticut remote ink-signature session for a will or POA. Do not buy an out-of-state e-will or e-POA to argue with a Connecticut desk we have not read. If the desk wants ink in the room, that is a mobile notary or a walk-in. |
| Real estate closing (C.G.S. § 51-88a) | A Connecticut real estate closing, as that section defines it, is a mortgage loan with lender title insurance on Connecticut land, or a paid ownership-transfer of Connecticut real property. An attorney in good standing must conduct that closing. § 3-95b(i) also bans remote acknowledgment of that closing. | Stay in the room. Proof’s secondary map says the state blocks RON here, including by out-of-state notaries. The state does not publish a video closing. |
We do not publish a bank-by-bank or town-by-town “accepts video” list we have not read on that desk’s page this month. If you need the operating address so a bank will open the account, that is a different product. It is not this site’s directory.
Open all night versus booked, in this state
If you need a same-session electronic seal tonight, that is an out-of-state video notary, and only if the receiving desk will take that notarization. A Connecticut-commissioned notary cannot close that session. Company availability letters live on the directory, once.
If you need a Connecticut notarization of a printed document, you are shopping remote ink-signature notarization plus mail, store hours, or a booked house call. Remote ink-signature notarization is the C on the in-state video path showing up as a mailbox. It is not a failure of the 2023 statute. It is the live rule. Closings, wills, and powers of attorney skip that mailbox and stay in the room.
The ID check on an out-of-state video call is not a courtesy. Companies print an ID scan and a quiz from your credit file. Signers with a thin U.S. credit file, a new tax ID, or a foreign passport fail that quiz more often than ads admit. That is when a mobile notary or a walk-in stops being “old fashioned” and becomes the product that can finish.
The five dollars in § 3-95 is the Connecticut notary-act cap we can quote. It is not a promise that a video company’s checkout stops at $5, and it is not a UPS price. The consumer starting prices we cite on company cards, about $25 a session, are still the official pages retrieved August 2026. Counters set their own prices at or below the statute cap.
Company letters live on the directory
Availability, identity check, and session-record letters for Proof/Notarize, NotaryLive, OneNotary, BlueNotary, mobile, and walk-in are on the directory, once. This page keeps the Connecticut rule and the document table. Official starting prices we cite: NotaryLive about $25 per session; Proof/Notarize about $25 for the first notarization and $15 for each extra notarization; OneNotary online about $25 and mobile from about $80. BlueNotary does not publish a session price. Independent Connecticut mobiles are not that OneNotary sticker. Counters set their own prices.
Related guide: how a remote online notary works, and which Connecticut records stay off a remote acknowledgment.
Form 1583 as a Connecticut use-case, without becoming a mailbox review
USPS will not let a commercial mailbox (CMRA) hand you mail until PS Form 1583 (June 2024) is complete. Form 1583 is the Postal Service form you sign so that store can receive your mail. You sign in person with the store (or an authorized employee) or with a notary public. The form’s note allows a live video call. A Connecticut signer can use an out-of-state remote notary if the store accepts that notarization. A Connecticut-commissioned notary cannot finish that video session as a same-session e-seal. Remote ink-signature mail is a different Connecticut product. That is closer to North Carolina wet-ink video than to Georgia or Massachusetts, and it is not a California “no remote law” story. Other states have their own rules. See Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin if that is your state.
What we will not do here: grade mailbox brands, pick a Hartford or New Haven storefront, or explain store flags. Those are mailbox questions. The notary question is: did the session match the form (U.S.-licensed notary, two IDs, home address matching the address ID), and will the store accept that session? Details live on Form 1583 notarization.
A sequence that usually wastes less money
- Read the receiving desk’s current instruction. If they printed “in person,” “wet ink today,” or “Connecticut notary in the room,” do not buy a video session to argue with them. If the document is a will, a power of attorney, a trust, or a real estate closing, § 3-95b(i) already closed the remote-acknowledgment path for a Connecticut notary.
- If they accept a remote electronic act on an ordinary document, you may use a notary licensed in another video-notary state. You may not use a Connecticut-commissioned notary on a same-session e-seal checkout. If they will take a Connecticut remote ink-signature notarization, budget the mail loop. The Secretary of the State is the authority for the in-state commission. NASS and NNA are the country sources. The company’s live notary pool is the day-of fact.
- Budget the extras from the official page, extra notarization, extra signer, witness, before you upload a six-signature packet at the $25 sticker. The five dollars in § 3-95 is the Connecticut notary-act cap, not that checkout.
- If the identity check fails, stop treating “try again after midnight” as a plan. Switch to a mobile notary or a walk-in. NotaryLive’s FAQ describes a Personal Verifier path. That is their product, not a universal escape hatch.
- Keep the session confirmation. The value of an out-of-state remote session in a later dispute is the recording that notary’s state already requires. The value of a walk-in is the ink the desk already said it wanted. The value of Connecticut remote ink-signature notarization is the mailed original with the notarization. Do not count on a Connecticut e-RON recording. § 3-95b does not print one.
Sources
- Connecticut Secretary of the State, Notary Public Licensing: Governor signed Public Act 23-28 on June 12, 2023; effective October 1, 2023; Notary Public Manual updated for that act; Business Services Division licenses notaries; new commission $120; renewal $60; five-year term.
- Connecticut Secretary of the State, Notary Public Manual (rev. 2023): the licensing page points here for Public Act 23-28 implementation.
- C.G.S. § 3-95b (P.A. 23-28; P.A. 24-97): live sight-and-sound session; identity methods; mail or deliver the signed original to be notarized; date is the video date; notary may refuse, including on an electronic record; remote acknowledgment banned for wills, trusts, health-care documents, powers of attorney, estate documents, and real estate closings; a banned acknowledgment is ineffective and is a § 51-88 violation. Official 2024 supplement: cga.ct.gov/2024/sup/chap_033.htm.
- Public Act 23-28 (SB 1040): session law that added the remote ink-signature path.
- Office of Legislative Research, Public Act 23-28 summary: identify the person on live communication technology, receive the document by mail or delivery, notarize it, mail it back; effective October 1, 2023; a notary who remotely acknowledges an ineligible record has violated the unauthorized-practice ban.
- C.G.S. § 3-95: notary-act fee shall not exceed five dollars plus thirty-five cents a mile.
- C.G.S. § 51-88a: a real estate closing is a mortgage loan secured by Connecticut real property with lender or mortgagee title insurance, or a paid ownership-transfer of Connecticut real property; an attorney in good standing must conduct it.
- C.G.S. § 34-247: Certificate of Organization executed by organizers and delivered to the Secretary of the State. We did not read a notarization requirement. See also the Certificate of Organization form: signature under penalties of false statement. Confirm the live form.
- NNA, What is a Remote Online Notary?: Alabama and Connecticut have enacted remote notarization laws for printed, ink-signed documents only.
- NNA, CT Senate Bill 1040: law-update note on the 2023 remote-notarial-acts bill.
- NASS, Remote Electronic Notarization: country-level enacted-law count. A remote ink-signature law is not the same as that state’s own notaries running an e-seal checkout.
- Proof RON map (July 8, 2026), labeled secondary vendor map. Proof lists Connecticut among five states without authorizing their notaries for RON, and says Connecticut blocks RON for local real estate closings, including by out-of-state notaries. Proof is also a listed vendor on this site.
- Notarize consumer pricing: $25 / $15 / $15 / $10.
- NotaryLive pricing: $25/session; extras; 10-year storage.
- OneNotary individuals pricing: $25 online; mobile from $80.
- PS Form 1583, June 2024.