# KRS § 395A.020: 395A.020 Definitions for chapter > Kentucky · Statutes · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.020 ## Section - **Citation:** KRS § 395A.020 - **Heading:** 395A.020 Definitions for chapter - **Jurisdiction:** Kentucky - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** KY Code / Title XXXIV / Chapter 395A / Section 395A.020 ## Text 395A.020 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter: (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; (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) "Conservator" means a person appointed by a court to manage the estate of a living individual. The term includes a limited conservator; (6) "Content of an electronic communication" means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication which: (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 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) "Digital asset" means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest. The term 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 meaning set forth in 18 U.S.C. sec. 2510(12), as amended; (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, agent, or trustee; (15) "Information" means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like; (16) "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; (17) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity; (18) "Personal representative" means an executor, administrator, special administrator, or person that performs substantially the same function under law of this state other than this chapter; (19) "Power of attorney" means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal; (20) "Principal" means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney; (21) "Protected person" means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed. The term includes an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator is pending; (22) "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; (23) "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), as amended; (24) "Terms of service agreement" means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian; um and is retrievable in perceivable form; (23) "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), as amended; (24) "Terms of service agreement" means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian; (25) "Trustee" means a fiduciary with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another. The term includes a successor trustee; (26) "User" means a person that has an account with a custodian; and (27) "Will" includes a codicil, testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument. ## Nearby sections - [KRS § 395A.010 395A.010 Short title](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.010.md) - [KRS § 395A.020 395A.020 Definitions for chapter](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.020.md) - [KRS § 395A.030 395A.030 Applicability](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.030.md) - [KRS § 395A.040 395A.040 User direction for disclosure of digital assets](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.040.md) - [KRS § 395A.050 395A.050 Terms-of-service agreement](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.050.md) - [KRS § 395A.060 395A.060 Procedure for disclosing digital assets](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.060.md) - [KRS § 395A.070 395A.070 Disclosure of content of electronic communications of deceased user](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.070.md) - [KRS § 395A.080 395A.080 Disclosure of other digital assets of deceased user](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.080.md) - [KRS § 395A.090 395A.090 Disclosure of content of electronic communications of principal](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.090.md) - [KRS § 395A.100 395A.100 Disclosure of other digital assets of principal](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.100.md) - [KRS § 395A.110 395A.110 Disclosure of digital assets held in trust when trustee is original user](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.110.md) - [KRS § 395A.120 395A.120 Disclosure of contents of electronic communications held in trust when trustee is not original user](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.120.md) - [KRS § 395A.130 395A.130 Disclosure of other digital assets held in trust when trustee is not original user](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.130.md) - [KRS § 395A.140 395A.140 Disclosure of digital assets to conservator of protected person](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.140.md) --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_KY_TXXXIV_C395A_S395A.020. 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