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 New Jersey owner needs a notary this week. The form is the use-case. The mailbox store is someone else’s product.
This page is not legal advice. An in-state commission is a notary license from New Jersey. A New Jersey-commissioned notary may perform remote online notarization after notifying the State Treasurer, through the Division of Revenue Notary Public Application portal, that the notary will perform remote acts and naming the technologies the notary will use. New Jersey does not issue a separate Online Notary Public commission. Electronic notarization is a different New Jersey product: the signer is still in the room, and that path also needs its own Treasurer notice before the first electronic act. A regular New Jersey notary who never filed those notices still has to be in the room. A bank, a commercial mailbox (CMRA), or the Postal Service still decides whether this packet may be remote.
The New Jersey grade that is not a company letter
We grade the state rule first. Remote online notarization (RON) is a video session with a notary. A company cannot turn a regular New Jersey notary into a remote notary. It also cannot erase the remote path New Jersey has taken since P.L. 2021, c. 179.
New Jersey (the state rule)
State rule · September 2026- In-state RON
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- Signer RON access
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- Walk-in / mobile backup
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Primary sources: New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Notary Public Law; Notary Public Application portal; New Jersey Notary Public Manual (October 22, 2021). Country context: NASS and NNA. Secondary vendor map: Proof, July 8, 2026, not the country authority.
No extra card, two extra notices
The Division of Revenue is blunt. P.L. 2021, c. 179 lets a commissioned New Jersey notary add remote and electronic work to the same commission. Mixing those jobs into one “is video legal in New Jersey?” question is how papers get sent back.
- Remote / communication technology is a live audio-and-video session with a remotely located individual. N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10 and N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14: the notarial officer must be located in this State. The signer may be anywhere. The act is deemed performed in New Jersey. That is the product people mean by RON. It is not a Texas- or Florida-style Online Notary Public commission.
- Electronic notarization is a tamper-evident electronic seal and electronic signature on a digital file while the individual appears in person. N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.16(a) says that out loud: the person requesting the act appears in person at the time of the act. That is not a $25 video checkout. The same subsection excludes wills, codicils, and testamentary trusts from that electronic path.
New Jersey does not mail a second commission card. The Treasury Notary Public Law page: if you already hold an active commission and will offer remote and/or electronic notarizations, update the commission record on the Notary Public Application. Once there, select Remote/Electronic Notarization under File an Application. Then enter your commission number and date of birth. The live portal we retrieved, njportal.com/DOR/Notary/RemoteElectronic, asks for those two fields. The statute and the rule still require the notary to identify the technologies. Do not assume every New Jersey notary on a checkout screen already filed that notice.
The two notices are not a blog shortcut. They are two different first-act rules.
- Before the first remote act under N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10 / N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14, notify the State Treasurer electronically and identify the technologies the notary intends to use. The rule still prints www.nj.gov/njbgs. The live Treasury page points that job at the Notary Public Application portal.
- Before the first electronic act under N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.16(b), notify the State Treasurer electronically that the notary will perform notarial acts with respect to electronic records and identify that technology. Same portal family. A different first-act trigger.
The Treasurer does not publish a Michigan-style approved-vendor PDF that we could reprint tonight. NNA’s New Jersey how-to says the State Treasurer does not endorse third-party vendors. We will not treat a 2021 NNA platform catalog as today’s official list. The primary fact is the notice plus technology that meets the rule, not a brand sticker.
The ID check is not a courtesy box. N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14(g) asks for two layers when the notary does not already know you: the notary visually checks a government proof-of-identity document from the N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.13 list, then the session also uses one identity-proofing method — a dynamic knowledge-based authentication quiz, biometric identity verification, or a digital public-key certificate. The statute’s third identity path, N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10(d)(1)(c), is “at least two different types of identity proofing.” The rule is the more specific how-to. It does not print a vendor pass rate. We will not invent one. Personal knowledge, or a credible witness, remains the other identity path in the statute. If the person cannot finish that check, a mobile notary or a walk-in becomes the product that can finish.
The session file is part of the remote act. N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10(l) and N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14(m): keep the audio-visual recording at least 10 years. The October 22, 2021 Notary Public Manual reprints that floor. An oath over video also keeps that recording for 10 years. N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14(k). We do not blend that number with a company’s consumer storage sticker.
Wills are the place blogs flatten New Jersey into a slogan. Do not buy a blanket ban, and do not buy a same-day e-will checkout.
- N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.16(a) keeps wills, codicils, and testamentary trusts off the in-person electronic-seal path.
- N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10(b) and N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14(b) say the ordinary remote section does not apply to a record governed by will-or-codicil law, except that the tangible-record subsections still apply to a paper will or codicil.
- That paper-remote path is N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10(e)–(h) / N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14(h)–(j): the notary can take an acknowledgment on a paper record the notary is holding if the signer sees and identifies it on camera, or the signer can sign the paper and a declaration on camera, mail them within three days, and the notary finishes the certificate after the packet arrives. That is a paper-remote job. It is not a same-day e-will checkout.
The State Treasurer, through the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, issues the commission. Apostilles and county clerk oaths are different office products. NNA’s New Jersey how-to matches the same three steps: hold an active traditional commission, contract with a communication-technology provider that meets state requirements, then notify the State Treasurer before the first remote act. NNA’s older vendor names are a snapshot. The Treasurer page is primary.
What actually needs a notary on a New Jersey LLC / bank stack
A New Jersey LLC is formed by filing a Certificate of Formation with the Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services. N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18: one or more organizers sign and deliver that certificate. The live Getting Registered page we retrieved: file the certificate of formation/authorization; the fee is $100 for all for-profit entities. The live DORES fee schedule reprints Certificate of formation at $100.00. The Public Records Filing instructions we retrieved: any authorized representative may sign a domestic or foreign limited liability company filing. We did not read a notarization requirement on that statute, that fee page, or those 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 piece of paper that sits next to the LLC.
| Document | Typical notary question | Video vs ink on paper |
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| NJ Certificate of Formation (N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18) | Usually none for the Division of Revenue filing itself. Live pages we retrieved: organizers sign; any authorized representative may sign an LLC filing; $100 fee. We did not read a notarization requirement on that statute or those Treasury pages. | Do not buy a video session because a blog said “LLCs need a notary.” Confirm the live form. |
| Bank signup papers (resolutions, signature cards, sworn statements) | The bank’s current checklist. Some desks accept a New Jersey remote notary or an out-of-state video notary. Some want ink on paper. | Ask the desk before you pay $25. We will not invent a bank’s notary rule. |
| Operating agreement or power of attorney the bank requested | The stamp type printed on the form. | A New Jersey remote notary is often enough if the desk accepts a remote act. If they printed “in person” or “wet ink,” that is a mobile notary or a walk-in. An electronic notarization seal still needs the signer in the room. |
| 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 New Jersey remote notary or an out-of-state video notary can both fit that sentence. Using a random PDF stamp is a common reject. See the 1583 page. |
| Vehicle title, motor-vehicle power of attorney, real-estate closing | The Motor Vehicle Commission desk, the title company, the lender, or the closing desk, not this site, decides whether a remote act is enough. | We have not read a current statewide motor-vehicle or title-company rule that we can quote as a video policy. If the desk wants ink, do not buy a video session to argue with them. |
| Will, codicil, or testamentary trust | Do not flatten this into one slogan. N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.16(a) keeps wills, codicils, and testamentary trusts off the in-person electronic-seal path. N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10(b) keeps ordinary remote off will-or-codicil records, except the paper-remote subsections for a tangible will or codicil. | A paper will can use the special communication-technology path in 52:7-10.10(e)–(h). That is not a same-day e-will checkout. When the desk wants ink in the room, that is a mobile notary or a walk-in. |
We do not publish a bank-by-bank or county-by-county “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
Because in-state remote notarization is live, all-night service is a real option for many New Jersey papers, if the receiving desk will take a remote act, and if the notary actually notified the State Treasurer before the first remote act. A New Jersey remote notary or a notary licensed in another video-notary state can both close that session. Company availability letters live on the directory, once.
If the desk wants a regular New Jersey stamp on paper, the identity check fails, the paper is a will the ordinary remote path does not cover, or the person you hired never filed the Treasurer notice, you are shopping store hours or a booked house call. That is the C on walk-in / mobile showing up as a calendar. It is not a failure of the state rule.
The Notary Public Manual prints legal fees for the notarial act itself. Chapter 11: $2.50 for ordinary oaths, affidavits, deed proofs, and acknowledgments; $15 for the grantor side of a real-estate transfer no matter how many of those acts sit in that one transfer; $25 for the mortgagor side of a real-estate financing no matter how many of those acts sit in that one financing. That is a New Jersey fee table for a New Jersey-commissioned notary. It is not a company sticker and 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. Those company stickers can sit above the manual’s $2.50 ordinary act because the checkout is the company’s product, not the statutory notary fee.
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 New Jersey rule and the document table. Official starting prices we cite: NotaryLive about $25 per session; Proof/Notarize about $25 for the first stamp and $15 for each extra stamp; OneNotary online about $25 and mobile from about $80. We do not invent a session price for BlueNotary. Independent New Jersey mobiles are not that OneNotary sticker. Counters set their own prices.
Form 1583 as a New Jersey 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 New Jersey signer can use a New Jersey remote notary or an out-of-state remote notary. That is the same idea as Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. Other states have their own rules. See California or Georgia if that is your state.
What we will not do here: grade mailbox brands, pick a Newark 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” or “wet ink,” do not buy a video session to argue with them. If the paper is a will, ask whether they want ink in the room or the paper-remote path in 52:7-10.10(e)–(h). If they will take an electronic seal only with both people in the room, that is New Jersey electronic notarization, not remote notarization.
- If they accept a remote act, you may use a New Jersey remote notary or a notary licensed in another video-notary state. The State Treasurer is the authority for the portal notice. NASS and NNA are the country sources. The company’s live notary pool is the day-of fact. Do not assume every New Jersey notary on a checkout screen already filed the Treasurer notice.
- Budget the extras from the official page, extra stamp, extra signer, witness, before you upload a six-signature packet at the $25 sticker. The $2.50 in the Notary Public Manual is the ordinary act fee for a New Jersey-commissioned notary, not a promise that the company’s checkout stops there.
- 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 a New Jersey remote session in a later dispute is the recording N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10 and N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14 already require the notary to keep for at least 10 years. The value of a walk-in is the ink the desk already said it wanted.
Sources
- New Jersey Department of the Treasury, Division of Revenue, Notary Public Law: P.L. 2021, c. 179 allows remote and electronic notarizations; active notaries who will offer remote and/or electronic work update the commission record on the Notary Public Application; select Remote/Electronic Notarization under File an Application; enter commission number and date of birth.
- New Jersey Notary Public Application portal and Remote/Electronic Notarization: commission number and date of birth. Division of Revenue & Enterprise Services, P.O. Box 452, Trenton, NJ 08646.
- New Jersey Notary Public Manual (October 22, 2021): implements P.L. 2021, c. 179 and N.J.A.C. 17:50; remote session must be interactive and secure; visual ID plus one identity-proofing method (dynamic knowledge-based authentication, biometric identity verification, or digital public-key certificate); recording retained 10 years; electronic notarization is in person; Chapter 11 fees $2.50 / $15 / $25.
- P.L. 2021, c. 179 (official session law): C.52:7-10.10 notarial act performed by a remotely located individual; notary located in this State; signer may be anywhere; Treasurer notice before the first remote act; recording at least 10 years.
- N.J.S.A. 52:7-10.10 (compiled): communication technology; identity by personal knowledge, credible witness, or at least two types of identity proofing; subsection b keeps ordinary remote off will-or-codicil records except the tangible-record subsections; subsections e–h are the paper-remote path; subsection l, recording at least 10 years; subsection m, Treasurer notice; subsection q, signer need not be in New Jersey.
- N.J.A.C. 17:50 special adoption (53 N.J.R. 1809(a)) and N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.14: communications-technology requirements; Treasurer notice; visual ID plus one identity-proofing method; recording 10 years; paper-remote declaration path; will-or-codicil exception for tangible records.
- N.J.A.C. 17:50-1.16: electronic notarization is tamper-evident technology while the individual appears in person; wills, codicils, and testamentary trusts are excepted; separate Treasurer notice before the first electronic act.
- New Jersey Division of Revenue, Getting Registered: file a Certificate of formation/authorization; $100 for all for-profit entities. DORES fee schedule: Certificate of formation $100.00. Public Records Filing instructions: any authorized representative may sign a domestic or foreign LLC filing. N.J.S.A. 42:2C-18: organizers sign and deliver the certificate. We did not read a notarization requirement.
- NNA, How to Become a Remote Online Notary in New Jersey: active traditional commission; provider that meets state requirements; notify the State Treasurer; notary in New Jersey; signer may be anywhere. NNA’s older platform names are a snapshot. The Treasurer does not endorse third-party vendors.
- NASS, Remote Electronic Notarization: country-level enacted-law count.
- NNA, What is a Remote Online Notary?: notary-side status, including states that have not authorized RON.
- Proof RON map (July 8, 2026), labeled secondary vendor map. 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.