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OK Code › Title 58 › Section 58-3102

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As used in this act:

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. "Catalog 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. "Guardian" means a person appointed by a court to manage the

estate of a living individual. The term includes a limited

guardian;

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 court of proper jurisdiction;

8. "Custodian" means a person who 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;

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12. "Electronic communication" has the meaning set forth in 18

U.S.C., Section 2510(12);

13. "Electronic-communication service" means a custodian that

provides a user the ability to send or receive an electronic

communication;

14. "Fiduciary" means an original, additional, or successor

personal representative, guardian, 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 the laws of this state other than this act;

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 guardian

has been appointed. The term includes an individual for whom an

application for the appointment of a guardian 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., Section 2510(14);

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., Section 2510(14);

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 who 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.

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