<section number="57-1-1"><effdate>5/6/2026</effdate><histories><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2026GS">77</modchap>, 2026 General Session</history><modyear>2026</modyear></histories><catchline>Definitions.</catchline><tab/>As used in this title:<subsection number="57-1-1(1)">"Certified copy" means a duplicate of a document: <subsection number="57-1-1(1)(a)">certified by the document's custodian to be a true and correct copy of the document; or </subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(1)(b)">maintained under the authority of the United States, the state, a political subdivision of the state, another state, a court of record, a foreign government, or an Indian tribe.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(2)">"Document" means every instrument in writing, including every conveyance, affecting, purporting to affect, describing, or otherwise concerning any right, title, or interest in real property, except wills and leases for a term not exceeding one year.</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(3)">"Indian tribe" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="9-9-101">9-9-101</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(4)">"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, public entity, or any other legal or commercial entity.</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(5)">"Public entity" means:<subsection number="57-1-1(5)(a)">the United States, including an agency of the United States;</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(5)(b)">the state, including an agency or department of the state;</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(5)(c)">a political subdivision, including a county, municipality, school district, special district, special service district, community reinvestment agency, or interlocal cooperation entity; or</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(5)(d)">an Indian tribe.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(6)">"Public entity affidavit" means a notarized affidavit:<subsection number="57-1-1(6)(a)">signed by an authorized employee or officer of a public entity; and</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(6)(b)">evidencing consent to a conveyance of real property by deed to the public entity.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(7)">"Real property" or "real estate" means any right, title, estate, or interest in land, including: <subsection number="57-1-1(7)(a)">all nonextracted minerals located in, on, or under the land; </subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(7)(b)">all buildings, fixtures and improvements on the land; and </subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(7)(c)">all water rights, rights-of-way, easements, rents, issues, profits, income, tenements, hereditaments, possessory rights, claims including mining claims, privileges, and appurtenances belonging to, used, or enjoyed with the land or any part of the land.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(8)">"Stigmatized" means:<subsection number="57-1-1(8)(a)">the site or suspected site of a homicide, other felony, or suicide;</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(8)(b)">the dwelling place of an individual infected, or suspected of being infected, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or any other infectious disease that the Department of Health and Human Services, created in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="26B-1-201">26B-1-201</xref>, determines cannot be transferred by occupancy of a dwelling place; or</subsection><subsection number="57-1-1(8)(c)">property that has been found to be contaminated, and that the local health department has subsequently found to have been decontaminated in accordance with <xref depth="2" refid="C19-6-P9_1800010118000101" refnumber="19-6-9" start="0">Title 19, Chapter 6, Part 9, Illegal Drug Operations Site Reporting and Decontamination Act</xref>.</subsection></subsection></section>