Tex. Property Code § 15.002
This is the official text of Tex. Property Code § 15.002, part of Texas’s Property Code — governs real property, landlord-tenant law, and property transactions.
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§ 15.002. DEFINITIONS.
Official statutory text
In this chapter:
(1) "Document" means information that is:
(A) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and
(B) eligible to be recorded in the real property records maintained by a county clerk.
(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 clerk 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) "Paper document" means a document that is received by a county clerk in a form that is not electronic.
(1) "Document" means information that is:
(A) inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and
(B) eligible to be recorded in the real property records maintained by a county clerk.
(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 clerk 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) "Paper document" means a document that is received by a county clerk in a form that is not electronic.
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