<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 43-43B-2 - Definition of terms. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2065772Normal { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2065772SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065772CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2065772Normal-000000 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; } span.s2065772DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2065772Normal-000001 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-right: 0; } span.s2065772DefaultParagraphFont-000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065772000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065772SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2065772SCL-000004 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=43-43B-2"><span class="s2065772SENU">43-43B-2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065772SENU">. </span><span class="s2065772CL">Definition of terms.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000000"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">Terms used in this chapter mean:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    "Access," to instruct, communicate with, store data in, or retrieve data from a computer system;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    "Computer," an internally programmed, general purpose digital device capable of automatically accepting data, processing data and supplying the results of the operation;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    "Software," a series of coded instructions or statements in a form acceptable to a computer system, which causes the computer system to process data in order to achieve a certain result;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    "Computer system," includes any computer, computer network, other related device, data input and output and storage devices, and data communications links;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    "Computer network," a set of related, connected network electronics and communications links that allows any computer system to communicate with any other computer system;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(5A)    "Data," digitized information in any form that may be accessed by a computer system, regardless of whether the information is in transmission or stored on a computer system, diskette, compact diskette, cd</span><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont-000002">-</span><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">rom, tape, or in any other medium;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal-000001"><span class="s2065772DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    "Destroy," to make unusable, render inoperable, render unable to accept or process data, or supply results, render unable to perform data processing tasks or cause computer networks to be unable to transfer data between computer systems for any amount of time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065772000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2065772Normal"><span class="s2065772SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2065772SCL-000004"> SL 1982, ch 300, § 2; SL 1984, ch 282, § 2; SL 2002, ch 109, § 28.</span></p></div></body></html>