<section number="75A-6-102"><effdate>5/7/2025</effdate><histories><history>Amended by Chapter <modchap sess="2025GS">310</modchap>, 2025 General Session</history><modyear>2025</modyear></histories><catchline>Definitions for chapter.</catchline><tab/>As used in this chapter:<subsection number="75A-6-102(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.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(2)">"Agent" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75A-2-102">75A-2-102</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(3)">"Carries" means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(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.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(5)">"Content of an electronic communication" means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that:<subsection number="75A-6-102(5)(a)">has been sent or received by a user;</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(5)(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</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(5)(c)">is not readily accessible to the public.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(6)">"Court" means a court with jurisdiction under Title 78A, Judiciary and Judicial Administration.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(7)">"Custodian" means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(8)">"Designated recipient" means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(9)"><subsection number="75A-6-102(9)(a)">"Digital asset" means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(9)(b)">"Digital asset" does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(10)">"Electronic communication" has the same meaning as the definition in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2510(12).</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(11)">"Electronic communication service" means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(12)">"Fiduciary" means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, guardian, agent, or trustee.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(13)">"Information" means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(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.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(15)">"Power of attorney" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75A-2-102">75A-2-102</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(16)">"Principal" means the same as that term is defined in Section <xref depth="3" refnumber="75A-2-102">75A-2-102</xref>.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(17)"><subsection number="75A-6-102(17)(a)">"Protected person" means an individual for whom a conservator or guardian has been appointed.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(17)(b)">"Protected person" includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator or guardian is pending.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(18)">"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. Sec. 2510(14).</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(19)">"Successor personal representative" 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-6-102(20)">"Terms of service agreement" means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(21)"><subsection number="75A-6-102(21)(a)">"Trustee" means a fiduciary with legal title to property pursuant to an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another.</subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(21)(b)">"Trustee" includes a successor trustee.</subsection></subsection><subsection number="75A-6-102(22)">"User" means a person that has an account with a custodian.</subsection></section>