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14-13102

Definitions

General Provisions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Account" means an arrangement under a terms-of-service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user.

2. "Agent" means an attorney-in-fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney.

3. "Carries" means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication.

4. "Catalogue of electronic communications" means information that identifies each person with which a user has had an electronic communication, the time and date of the communication and the electronic address of the person.

5. "Conservator" means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual and includes a limited conservator and a fiduciary as defined in section 14-5651, subsection K.

6. "Content of an electronic communication" means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Has been sent or received by a user.

(b) Is in electronic storage by a custodian providing an electronic-communication service to the public or is carried or maintained by a custodian providing a remote-computing service to the public.

(c) Is not readily accessible to the public.

7. "Court" means the superior court.

8. "Custodian" means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives or stores a digital asset of a user.

9. "Designated recipient" means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.

10. "Digital asset" means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. Digital asset does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.

11. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.

12. "Electronic communication" has the same meaning prescribed in 18 United States Code section 2510(12).

13. "Electronic-communication service" means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.

14. "Fiduciary" means an original, additional or successor personal representative, conservator, agent, trustee or a fiduciary as defined in section 14-5651, subsection K.

15. "Information" means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases or the like.

16. "Online tool" means an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows the user, in an agreement distinct from the terms-of-service agreement between the custodian and user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third person.

17. "Person" means an individual, an estate, a business or nonprofit entity, a public corporation, a government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal entity.

18. "Personal representative" means an executor, an administrator, a special administrator or person that performs substantially the same function under law of this state other than this chapter.

19. "Power of attorney" means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal.

20. "Principal" means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney.

21. "Protected person" means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed. Protected person includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator is pending.

22. "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and that is retrievable in perceivable form.

23. "Remote-computing service" means a custodian that provides to a user computer-processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system, as defined in 18 United States Code section 2510(14).

24. "Terms-of-service agreement" means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.

25. "Trustee" means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another. Trustee includes a successor trustee.

26. "User" means a person that has an account with a custodian.

27. "Will" includes a codicil, testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor and instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument.

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