2025 Delaware Code
Title 25 - Property
Chapter 1. DEEDS
Subchapter V. Electronic Recording
§ 182. Validity of electronic documents.

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25 DE Code § 182 (2025)
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§ 182. Validity of electronic documents.

(a) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or other tangible medium, or be in writing, an electronic document satisfying this subchapter satisfies the law.

(b) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be signed, an electronic signature satisfies the law.

(c) A requirement that a document or a signature associated with a document be notarized, acknowledged, verified, witnessed, or made under oath is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform that act, and all other information required to be included, is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature. A physical or electronic image of a stamp, impression, or seal is not required to accompany an electronic signature.

75 Del. Laws, c. 23, § 1; 
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