Washington Administrative Code › Title 434 - Secretary of State › Chapter 434-661 - Real property electronic recording › ELECTRONIC RECORDING STANDARDS › Section 434-661-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter:
(1) "Delivery package" means a document,
				group of documents, related or unrelated, bundled into a single entity for
				electronic transfer.
(2) "Document"
				means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in
				an electronic or other medium, is retrievable in perceivable form, and is
				eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the county recording
				officer.
(3) "Electronic" means
				relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical,
				electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(4) "Electronic document" means a document
				that is received or sent by the recording officer in an electronic
				form.
(5) "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.
(6)
				"Electronic notarization" means a notarial act performed in accordance with
				chapter 42.44 RCW and chapter 308-30 WAC by a notary public who provides
				notarial acts using electronic interface.
(7) "Electronic recording standards
				commission" or "eRecording standards commission" or "ERSC" means the body of
				stakeholders appointed by the secretary of state to review electronic recording
				standards and make recommendations to the secretary in accordance with
				RCW
				 65.24.040.
(8) "eRecording" means electronic recording
				of real property documents.
(9)
				"Metadata" means data describing other data to facilitate the understanding,
				use, and management of that data.
(10) "Open architecture" means computer
				architecture or software architecture that employs specifications that are open
				to the public to allow for adding, upgrading and exchange of components
				produced by a broad range of manufacturers.
(11) "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 world wide web presentation.
(12) "Recording" means making a matter of
				record in the office of the recording officer in accordance with
				RCW
				 65.04.030.
(13) "Recording officer" means the county
				auditor or other official county recording officer.
(14) "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.
(15)
				"URPERA (Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act)" means the body of
				recommended legislation released in 2004 by the National Conference of
				Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) for adoption by state
				legislatures. URPERA authorizes recording officers to accept electronic
				documents for recording in accordance with established standards. Washington
				state adopted a modified version of URPERA in 2008 (chapter 65.24
				RCW).
(16) "Washington state
				archives" means the office of the secretary of state, division of archives and
				records management.
(17) "Web
				portal (gateway)" means a site that functions as a point of access to
				information or services on the world wide web.
(18) "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.
Statutory Authority: Chapter 65.24 RCW. 13-03-070, §
					 434-661-020, filed 1/14/13, effective
					 2/14/13.