Definitions

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    (a)    In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

    (b)    “Document” means information that is:

        (1)    Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form; and

        (2)    Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk of a circuit court.

    (c)    “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

    (d)    “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the clerk of a circuit court in electronic form.

    (e)    “Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.

    (f)    “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a statutory trust, a personal representative of an estate, a trustee, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.

    (g)    “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.


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