55-142.10 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 55-142.10. Definitions.

As used in this article, terms shall have the meanings as defined below:

"Clerk" means a clerk of the circuit court.

"Document" means information that is:

(i) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic orother medium and is retrievable in perceivable form, and

(ii) eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk.

"Electronic," as defined in Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (§ 59.1-479et seq.), means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic,wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

"Electronic document" means a document received by the clerk in electronicform.

"Electronic notarization" means an official act by a notary public inaccordance with the Virginia Notary Act (§ 47.1-1 et seq.) and § 55-118.3with respect to an electronic document.

"Electronic signature," as defined in the Uniform Electronic TransactionsAct (§ 59.1-479 et seq.), means an electronic sound, symbol, or processattached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted bya person with the intent to sign the record.

"eRecording System" is the automated electronic recording systemimplemented by the clerk for the recordation of electronic documents amongthe land records maintained by the clerk.

"Filer" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, publicbody, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, orinstrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity who files anelectronic document among the land records maintained by the clerk.

"Land records document" means any writing authorized by law to be recorded,whether made on paper or in electronic format, which the clerk recordsaffecting title to real property.

(2006, c. 745.)