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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="15-601" title_number="15" title_name="Fiduciaries" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Maryland Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Account” means an arrangement under a terms–of–service agreement in which a custodian carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user or provides goods or services to the user.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Agent” has the meaning stated in § 17–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Carries” means engages in the transmission of electronic communications.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Catalogue of electronic communications” means information that identifies:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Each person with whom a user has had an electronic communication;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The time and date of the communication; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The electronic address of the person.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of a communication that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Has been sent or received by a user;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is in electronic storage by a custodian providing an electronic communication service to the public; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Is carried or maintained by a custodian providing a remote computing service to the public; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Is not readily accessible to the public.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Custodian” means a person who carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of an account holder.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Designated recipient” means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer the digital assets of the user.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Digital asset” means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Digital asset” does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Electronic communication” has the meaning stated in 18 U.S.C. § 2510(12).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“Electronic communication service” means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Fiduciary” means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, guardian, agent, or trustee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Guardian” means a guardian of the property appointed by a court under Title 13, Subtitle 2 of this article to manage the property of a disabled person or minor or a guardian of the person appointed by a court under Title 13, Subtitle 7 of this article, according to the context in which it is used.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Guardian” includes a limited guardian.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <text>“Information” means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, or databases.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="p">
    <text>“Online tool” means an electronic service provided by a custodian that allows a user, in an agreement distinct from the terms–of–service agreement between the custodian and the user, to provide directions for disclosure or nondisclosure of digital assets to a third party.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="q">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="r">
    <text>“Personal representative” means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under a law of this State other than this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="s">
    <text>“Power of attorney” has the meaning stated in § 17–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="t">
    <text>“Principal” has the meaning stated in § 17–101 of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="u">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Protected person” means an individual for whom a guardian has been appointed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Protected person” includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a guardian is pending.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="v">
    <text>“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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="w">
    <text>“Remote computing service” means a custodian who 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).</text>
  </level>
  <level label="x">
    <text>“Terms–of–service agreement” means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="y">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Trustee” means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or a declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Trustee” includes an original, additional, or successor trustee or cotrustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="z">
    <text>“User” means a person who has an account with a custodian.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="aa">
    <text>“Will” includes a codicil, a testamentary instrument that only appoints a personal representative, or an instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument if the codicil or instrument satisfies the requirements of § 4–102, § 4–103, or § 4–104 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
