2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 13. Decedents' Estates, Guardianships, Transfers, Trusts, and Health Care Decisions › Chapter 63. Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act › Sec. 13.63.190. Definitions.

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) “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) “conservator” means a person appointed by a superior court to manage all or part of the estate of a living individual;
(6) “content of an electronic communication” means information concerning the substance or meaning of the communication that
(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; in this subparagraph,
(i) “electronic-communication service” means the ability to send or receive an electronic communication;
(ii) “remote-computing service” means computer- processing services or the storage of digital assets by means of an electronic communications system; in this sub-subparagraph, “electronic communications system” has the meaning given in 18 U.S.C. 2510; and
(C) is not readily accessible to the public;
(7) “custodian” means a person that carries, maintains, processes, receives, or stores a digital asset of a user;
(8) “designated recipient” means a person chosen by a user using an online tool to administer digital assets of the user;
(9) “digital asset” means an electronic record in which an individual has a right or interest, but does not include an underlying asset or liability unless the asset or liability is itself an electronic record;
(10) “electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities;
(11) “electronic communication” has the meaning given in 18 U.S.C. 2510;
(12) “fiduciary” means an original, additional, or successor personal representative, conservator, agent, or trustee;
(13) “information” means data, text, images, videos, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or similar items;
(14) “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;
(15) “person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or another legal entity;
(16) “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;
(17) “power of attorney” means a record that grants an agent authority to act in the place of a principal;
(18) “principal” means an individual who grants authority to an agent in a power of attorney;
(19) “protected person” means an individual for whom a conservator has been appointed or an individual for whom an application for the appointment of a conservator is pending;
(20) “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;
(21) “terms-of-service agreement” means an agreement that controls the relationship between a user and a custodian;
(22) “trustee” means a fiduciary, whether the original fiduciary or a successor fiduciary, with legal title to property under an agreement or declaration that creates a beneficial interest in another person;
(23) “user” means a person that has an account with a custodian;
(24) “will” includes a codicil, a testamentary instrument that only appoints an executor, and an instrument that revokes or revises a testamentary instrument.