<section number="75A-2-102"><effdate>5/7/2025</effdate><histories><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025GS">310</modchap>, 2025 General Session</history><modyear>2025</modyear><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025GS">338</modchap>, 2025 General Session</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Definitions for chapter.</catchline><tab/>As used in this chapter:<subsection number="75A-2-102(1)"><subsection number="75A-2-102(1)(a)">"Agent" means a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney-in-fact, or otherwise.  </subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(1)(b)">"Agent" includes an original agent, coagent, successor agent, and person to which an agent's authority is delegated.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(2)">"Beneficiary" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(3)">"Beneficiary designation" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(4)">"Child" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(5)">"Claims" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(6)">"Durable," with respect to a power of attorney, means not terminated by the principal's incapacity.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(7)">"Fiduciary" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(8)">"Incapacity" means the inability of an individual to manage property or business affairs because the individual:<subsection number="75A-2-102(8)(a)">has an impairment in the ability to receive and evaluate information or make or communicate decisions even with the use of technological assistance; or</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(8)(b)">is:<subsection number="75A-2-102(8)(b)(i)">missing;</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(8)(b)(ii)">detained, including incarcerated in a penal system; or</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(8)(b)(iii)">outside the United States and unable to return.</subsection></subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(9)">"Lease" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(10)">"Mortgage" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(11)">"Organization" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(12)">"Power of attorney" means a writing or other record governed by this chapter that grants authority to an agent to act in the place of the principal regardless of whether the term power of attorney is used.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(13)"><subsection number="75A-2-102(13)(a)">"Presently exercisable general power of appointment," with respect to property or a property interest subject to a power of appointment, means power exercisable at the time in question to vest absolute ownership in the principal individually, the principal's estate, the principal's creditors, or the creditors of the principal's estate.  </subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(13)(b)">"Presently exercisable general power of appointment" includes a power of appointment not exercisable until the occurrence of a specified event, the satisfaction of an ascertainable standard, or the passage of a specified period only after the occurrence of the specified event, the satisfaction of the ascertainable standard, or the passage of the specified period.  </subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(13)(c)">"Presently exercisable general power of appointment" does not include a power exercisable in a fiduciary capacity or only by will.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(14)">"Principal" means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(15)">"Security" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75-1-201">75-1-201</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(16)"><subsection number="75A-2-102(16)(a)">"Stocks and bonds" means stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and all other types of securities and financial instruments, whether held directly, indirectly, or in any other manner.  </subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(16)(b)">"Stocks and bonds" does not include commodity futures contracts and call or put options on stocks or stock indexes.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-2-102(17)">"Trustee" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75B-1-101">75B-1-101</xref>.</subsection></section>