KRS 395A.020: Definitions for chapter.
Where this section sits in the code
- KRS Chapter 395A
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 a uthority 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 t he 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, r eceives, 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 technolo gy 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 custodia n 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, t o 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 incl udes 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;
(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.
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