Md. Code, Real Property § 3-701
This is the official text of Md. Code, Real Property § 3-701, part of Maryland’s Code, Real Property — governs real estate transactions and landlord-tenant law.
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§3–701.
Official statutory text
(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
(b) “Document” means information that is:
(1) Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form; and
(2) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk of a circuit court.
(c) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(d) “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the clerk of a circuit court in electronic form.
(e) “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.
(f) “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a statutory trust, a personal representative of an estate, a trustee, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(g) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(b) “Document” means information that is:
(1) Inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in perceivable form; and
(2) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the clerk of a circuit court.
(c) “Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.
(d) “Electronic document” means a document that is received by the clerk of a circuit court in electronic form.
(e) “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.
(f) “Person” means an individual, a corporation, a statutory trust, a personal representative of an estate, a trustee, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint venture, a public corporation, a government, a governmental subdivision, an agency, an instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(g) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
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