<html> <head> <title>Rule 22:03:01:01 Definitions.</title> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Administrative Rules 22:03:01:01"> <META NAME="Description" Content="Administrative Rules 22:03:01:01 Definitions."> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered)"> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72; text-decoration:underline;} .MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black;} .MsoPapDefault {margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:49.7pt 1.0in 49.7pt 63.35pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"> <div class=WordSection1> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>22</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>03</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>01</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>:</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>01</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Definitions.</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> Words and phrases defined in SDCL chapter <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=7-9A">7-9A</A> have the</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>same meaning when used in this chapter. Terms used in this article and not otherwise defined in</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>SDCL chapter <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=7-9A">7-9A</A> mean:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&quot;Delivery agent,&quot; a party who has entered into an agreement with a participating register</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>of deeds to deliver an electronic document from a submitter to a participating register of deeds</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>and to return the recorded electronic document to the submitter;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Electronic document delivery system,&quot; an automated system for the secure transmission of an electronic document between a submitter and a participating register of deeds through the use of a delivery agent;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Electronic recording,&quot; the delivery and return of an electronic document using an electronic document delivery system for the purpose of recording that document with the register of deeds;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Land records management system,&quot; the system or software solution used by a register of deeds to securely receive, manage, access, search, retrieve, and store documents, electronic or otherwise;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Participating register of deeds,&quot; a register of deeds that has elected to accept electronic documents for recording in accordance with SDCL chapter <A HREF="/statutes/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&Statute=7-9A">7-9A</A>;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;PDF,&quot; a portable document format which is a common format for image exchange or world wide web presentation;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;PRIA,&quot; the Property Records Industry Association located at 2501 Aerial Center Parkway, Ste. 103, Morrisville, NC 27560 (http://www.pria.us/) whose mission is to develop and promote national standards and best practices for the property records industry;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (8)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;Submitter,&quot; a party who requests that an electronic document be recorded;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (9)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;TIFF,&quot; a tagged image file format which is a common format for high-quality black and white, gray-scaled, or color graphics of any resolution and consists of individual dots or pixels;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (10)&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;XML,&quot; extensible markup language which is an extensible document language for specifying document content. XML is not a predefined markup language but a meta-language (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.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Source:</b> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>43</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> SDR </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>57</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>, effective </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>October</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>17</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>2016</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>General Authority:</b> SDCL </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>7</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>9A</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>8.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Law Implemented:</b> SDCL </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>7-9A-2, 7-9A-3, 7-9A-4, 7-9A-5, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>7-9A-8</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>, 7-9A-9</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman",serif'>&nbsp;</span></p> </div> </body> </html>