Per veronica:
"As we’ve discussed, because it seems Travis County is now allowing the grantees and attorneys approving as to form to e-sign property instruments, I removed property documents that must be filed with Travis County -- from the list of documents that may require paper and ink.
Note that Travis County told me that they still require the notary that notarizes the property instrument to use a wet ink signature, but I didn’t want to get into the weeds about that part. The clerk at Travis County was a bit unclear about the requirement and pointed to no written provision I could reference. So I provided no detail in the guidance on that. I am thinking that level of detail can be figured out as people talk to their attorneys, about notarized documents and filing with Travis County. And from what I understand, departments shouldn’t be filing their own property instruments anyway. They need to rely on ORES to do that. ORES knows how to do it and is up to speed.
I made some other edits as well to other parts of the guidance."
Per veronica: "As we’ve discussed, because it seems Travis County is now allowing the grantees and attorneys approving as to form to e-sign property instruments, I removed property documents that must be filed with Travis County -- from the list of documents that may require paper and ink.
Note that Travis County told me that they still require the notary that notarizes the property instrument to use a wet ink signature, but I didn’t want to get into the weeds about that part. The clerk at Travis County was a bit unclear about the requirement and pointed to no written provision I could reference. So I provided no detail in the guidance on that. I am thinking that level of detail can be figured out as people talk to their attorneys, about notarized documents and filing with Travis County. And from what I understand, departments shouldn’t be filing their own property instruments anyway. They need to rely on ORES to do that. ORES knows how to do it and is up to speed.
I made some other edits as well to other parts of the guidance."