Definitions

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  • In this chapter:
    • (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) “Content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication which:

      • (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; and

      • (C) is not readily accessible to the public.

    • (6) “Court” means the Family Division of the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands.

    • (7) “Custodian” means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user.

    • (8) “Designated recipient” means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.

    • (9) “Digital asset” means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. The term does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.

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

    • (11) “Electronic communication” has the meaning set forth in 18 U.S.C. 2510(12), as amended.

    • (12) “Electronic-communication service” means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.

    • (13) “Fiduciary” means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, guardian, agent, or trustee.

    • (14) “Guardian” means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual. The term includes a limited guardian.

    • (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, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.

    • (18) “Personal representative” means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under law of this territory 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) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

    • (22) “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 U.S.C. § 2510(14).

    • (23) “Terms-of-service agreement” means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.

    • (24) “Trustee” means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another. The term includes a successor trustee.

    • (25) “User” means a person that has an account with a custodian.

    • (26) “Ward” means an individual for whom a guardian has been appointed. The term includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a guardian is pending.

    • (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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