2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 11 Counties
11-487.01 Definitions

11-487.01. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Document" means information that is both of the following:

(a) Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium, and retrievable in perceivable form.

(b) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by a county recorder.

2. "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.

3. "Electronic document" means a document that is received by a county recorder in an electronic form.

4. "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.

5. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity.

6. "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.