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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="3-701" title_number="3" title_name="Recordation" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Maryland Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Document” means information that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk of a circuit court.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Electronic document” means a document that is received by the clerk of a circuit court in electronic form.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Electronic signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Person” means an individual, a corporation, a statutory trust, a personal representative of an estate, a trustee, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.</text>
  </level>
</section>
