# Mont. Code Ann. § 72-31-402: 72-31-402 Definitions > Montana · Statutes · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MT_T72_C31_P4_S72-31-402 ## Section - **Citation:** Mont. Code Ann. § 72-31-402 - **Heading:** 72-31-402 Definitions - **Jurisdiction:** Montana - **Kind:** Statutes - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** MT Code / Title 72 / Chapter 31 / Part 4 / Section 72-31-402 ## Text 72-31-402 . Definitions. As used in this part: (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. (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 the district court having jurisdiction in matters relating to the content of this part. (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. 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 part. (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. 2510(14), as amended. (24) "Terms-of-service agreement" means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian. ther 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. 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. (27) "Will" includes a codicil, testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument. ## Nearby sections - [Mont. Code Ann. § 72-31-401 72-31-401 Short title](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MT_T72_C31_P4_S72-31-401.md) - [Mont. Code Ann. § 72-31-402 72-31-402 Definitions](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MT_T72_C31_P4_S72-31-402.md) - [Mont. Code Ann. § 72-31-403 72-31-403 User direction for disclosure of digital assets](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MT_T72_C31_P4_S72-31-403.md) - [Mont. 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