“Account” means an arrangement under a terms of service agreement in which a custodiancarries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of the user or provides goods or services to the user.
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Terms Used In Utah Code 75-11-102
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. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Agent: means an attorney in fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Carries: means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
Custodian: means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Digital asset: means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Electronic communication service: means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
Executor: includes "administrator" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Information: means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See Utah Code 75-11-102
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. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Person: means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under the law of this state other than this chapter. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Power of attorney: means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
Principal: means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney. See Utah Code 75-11-102
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. See Utah Code 75-11-102
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. See Utah Code 75-11-102
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Terms of service agreement: means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian. See Utah Code 75-11-102
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
User: means a person that has an account with a custodian. See Utah Code 75-11-102
(2)
“Agent” means an attorney in fact granted authority under a durable or nondurable power of attorney.
(3)
“Carries” means engages in the transmission of an electronic communication.
(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.
(5)
(a)
“Conservator” means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual.
(b)
“Conservator” includes a limited conservator.
(6)
“Content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that:
(a)
has been sent or received by a user;
(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
(c)
is not readily accessible to the public.
(7)
“Court” means the district court.
(8)
“Custodian” means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user.
(9)
“Designated recipient” means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user.
(10)
(a)
“Digital asset” means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest.
(b)
“Digital asset” does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record.
(11)
“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(12)
“Electronic communication” has the same meaning as the definition in 18 U.S.C. § 2510(12).
(13)
“Electronic communication service” means a custodian that provides to a user the ability to send or receive an electronic communication.
(14)
“Fiduciary” means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, guardian, agent, or trustee.
(15)
(a)
“Guardian” means a person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of a living individual.
(b)
“Guardian” includes a limited guardian.
(16)
“Information” means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like.
(17)
“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.
(18)
“Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, instrumentality, or other legal entity.
(19)
“Personal representative” means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under the law of this state other than this chapter.
(20)
“Power of attorney” means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal.
(21)
“Principal” means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney.
(22)
(a)
“Protected person” means an individual for whom a conservator or guardian has been appointed.
(b)
“Protected person” includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator or guardian is pending.
(23)
“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.
(24)
“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. § 2510(14).
(25)
“Terms of service agreement” means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian.
(26)
(a)
“Trustee” means a fiduciary with legal title to property pursuant to an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another.
(b)
“Trustee” includes a successor trustee.
(27)
“User” means a person that has an account with a custodian.
(28)
“Will” includes a codicil, a testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and an instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument.
