22 : 03 : 01 : 01 . Definitions. Words and phrases defined in SDCL chapter 7-9A have the same meaning when used in this chapter. Terms used in this article and not otherwise defined in SDCL chapter 7-9A mean:

1. (1) "Delivery agent," a party who has entered into an agreement with a participating register of deeds to deliver an electronic document from a submitter to a participating register of deeds and to return the recorded electronic document to the submitter;
2. (2) "Electronic document delivery system," 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;
3. (3) "Electronic recording," 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;
4. (4) "Land records management system," the system or software solution used by a register of deeds to securely receive, manage, access, search, retrieve, and store documents, electronic or otherwise;
5. (5) "Participating register of deeds," a register of deeds that has elected to accept electronic documents for recording in accordance with SDCL chapter 7-9A;
6. (6) "PDF," a portable document format which is a common format for image exchange or world wide web presentation;
7. (7) "PRIA," 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;
8. (8) "Submitter," a party who requests that an electronic document be recorded;
9. (9) "TIFF," 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;
10. (10) "XML," extensible markup language which is an extensible document language for specifying document content. XML is not a predefined markup language but a meta-language (alanguagefordescribingotherlanguages) allowing the user to specify a document type definition (DTD) and design customized markup languages for different classes of documents.

Source: 43 SDR 57 , effective October 17 , 2016 .

General Authority: SDCL 7 - 9A - 8.

Law Implemented: SDCL 7-9A-2, 7-9A-3, 7-9A-4, 7-9A-5, 7-9A-8 , 7-9A-9 .