Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 36 - Technology › Part 201 - Electronic Recording Commission Rules and Standards › Chapter 1 - General Rules and Standards to Implement Electronic Recording › Rule 36-201-1.2 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following definitions govern the use of terms in these
				  Rules:
(A) "Electronic Signature" means an electronic sound, symbol
				  or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or
				  adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document;
(B) "Electronic Recording" or "eRecording" means the process
				  of the office of a Chancery Clerk accepting, recording and indexing a document
				  in an electronic form instead of by paper submission.
(C) "PDF" (Portable Document Format) means the file format
				  originally created by Adobe Systems for document exchange allowing documents to
				  be viewed as they were intended to appear. PDFs are a common format for image
				  exchange or Web presentation.
(D) "TIFF" (Tagged Image File Format) means the
				  variable-resolution bitmapped image format originally developed by the Aldus
				  Corporation (now part of Adobe Systems) and published as ISO 12639:2004,
				  Graphic technology-Prepress digital data exchange-Tag image file format for
				  image technology (TIFF/IT). TIFF is a common format for high-quality black and
				  white, gray-scaled, or color graphics of any resolution and is made up of
				  individual dots or pixels.
(E) "XML" (Extensible Markup Language) means an extensible
				  document language for specifying document content. XML is not a predefined
				  markup language but a metalanguage a language for describing other languages
				  allowing the user to specify a document type definition (DTD) and design
				  customized markup languages for different classes of documents.
(F) "Trusted Submitter" means a party that has a Trusted
				  Submitter Agreement signed, approved by, and on file with an individual
				  Chancery Clerk as provided in these Rules in order to record documents
				  electronically with that Chancery Clerk.
(G) "Trusted Submitter Agreement" means the agreement to be
				  signed by any party who wishes to become a Trusted Submitter as defined in
				  these Rules and which is in a form which substantially conforms to that
				  appended to these Rules as Exhibit A.
(H) "Electronic Document" and "Electronic Record" both mean a
				  document that is received by the office of a Chancery Clerk in an electronic
				  form meeting the standards set forth in this Chapter.
(I) "Electronic Acceptance" or "Acceptance" means the act of
				  a Chancery Clerk accepting a submitted document for recording through
				  electronic means.
(J) "System of Electronic Recording" means a computer
				  program, and the hardware and software components that comprise it, which
				  allows for the receipt and processing of Electronic Documents for recording and
				  indexing.
(K) "Delivery Agent" means a third party or entity other than
				  the Trusted Submitter and the Chancery Clerk through whom Electronic Documents
				  and/or recording fees are delivered to the office of a Chancery
				  Clerk.
Section 5 (a) and (c),
				  HB 599, 2011 Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, as approved by the
				  Governor.