                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 55.1-661)

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different
meaning:		&#8220;Clerk&#8221;  means a clerk of the circuit
court.		&#8220;Document&#8221;  means information that is:

1. Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other
medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and

2. Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk.
			&#8220;Electronic,&#8221;  as defined in Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
(&#xA7; 59.1-479 et seq.), means relating to technology having electrical,
digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar
capabilities.			&#8220;Electronic document&#8221;  means a document received by
the clerk in electronic form.			&#8220;Electronic notarization&#8221;  means an
official act by a notary public in accordance with the Virginia Notary Act
(&#xA7; 47.1-1 et seq.) and &#xA7; 55.1-618 with respect to an electronic
document.			&#8220;Electronic signature,&#8221;  as defined in the Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act (&#xA7; 59.1-479 et seq.), means an electronic
sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and
executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the
record.			&#8220;eRecording System&#8221;  is the automated electronic recording
system implemented by the clerk for the recordation of electronic documents
among the land records maintained by the clerk.			&#8220;Filer&#8221;  means an
individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited
liability company, association, joint venture, public body, public corporation,
government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any
other legal or commercial entity that files an electronic document among the
land records maintained by the clerk.			&#8220;Land records document&#8221; 
means any writing authorized by law to be recorded, whether made on paper or in
electronic format, that the clerk records affecting title to real property.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 745, § 55-142.10; 2019, c. 712.