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) 'catalog 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 superior court to manage all or part of the estate of a living individual; (6) 'content of an electronic communication' means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that (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; in this subparagraph, (i) 'electronic-communication service' means the mmunication service to the public or is carried or maintained by a custodian providing a remote-computing service to the public; in this subparagraph, (i) 'electronic-communication service' means the ability to send or receive an electronic communication; (ii) 'remote-computing service' means computer- processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system; in this sub-subparagraph, 'electronic communications system' has the meaning given in 18 U.S.C. 2510; and (C) is not readily accessible to the public; (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, but 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 cord; (10) 'electronic' means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities; (11) 'electronic communication' has the meaning given in 18 U.S.C. 2510; (12) 'fiduciary' means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, agent, or trustee; (13) 'information' means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or similar items; (14) '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; (15) 'person' means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or another legal entity; (16) 'personal representative' means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under law of this state other than this chapter; (17) 'power of attorney' means a record that grants an agent authority to ecial administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under law of this state other than this chapter; (17) 'power of attorney' means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal; (18) 'principal' means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney; (19) 'protected person' means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed or an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator is pending; (20) '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; (21) 'terms-of-service agreement' means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian; (22) 'trustee' means a fiduciary, whether the original fiduciary or a successor fiduciary, with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another person; (23) 'user' means a person that has an account with a custodian; (24) 'will' includes a codicil, a testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and an instrument that revokes or revises a (23) 'user' means a person that has an account with a custodian; (24) 'will' includes a codicil, a testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and an instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument.
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