(1)  To provide services or information electronically, a state governmental entity may implement the terms listed in Subsection (2) in accordance with this section:

Terms Used In Utah Code 46-4-502

  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Information: means data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • State: includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, that is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Utah Code 46-4-102
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(a)  when the term is used in the Utah Code; and

(b)  if the implementation is not:

(i)  inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Legislature; or

(ii)  repugnant to the context of the statute.

(2)  Subsection (1) applies to the terms listed in this Subsection (2).

(a)  “Copy” may include an electronic version of a document.

(b)  “Mail” may include sending a document electronically if the recipient can accept and process the electronic writing.

(c)  “Mailing address” may include an electronic mailing address capable of receiving and processing an electronic writing.

(d)  “Sign” or “signature” may include any form of electronic signature authorized by the governmental agency.

(e)  “Written” or “writing” may include information that is:

(i)  inscribed on a tangible medium; or

(ii) 

(A)  stored in an electronic or other medium; and

(B)  is retrievable in a perceivable form.

Amended by Chapter 20, 2003 General Session