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This law was first created in 2017. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 738<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":[{"id":61867,"section_number":"8.01-390","catch_line":"Nonjudicial records as evidence (Subdivision (10)(a) of Supreme Court Rule 2:803 derived from subsection C of this section)","order_by":null,"url":"\/8.01-390\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":176659,"object_type":"law","relational_id":66054,"identifier":"2.2-3817","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/38.2\/2.2-3817","url":"\/2.2-3817\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-3817\/","token":"2.2\/II\/B\/38.2\/2.2-3817","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-3817","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this section:\n\t\t“Agency<\/span>” means any authority, board, commission, council, department, instrumentality, institution, or other unit of state government located in the executive or legislative branch; independent agencies; and any county, city, or town, or other unit of local government, including constitutional officers, except circuit<\/span> court<\/span> clerks.\n\t\t“Digital signature<\/span>” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent<\/span> to sign the document. A digital signature<\/span> shall provide a means to authenticate an electronic record by confirming the agency<\/span> as the disseminator of the document and shall provide both digital and visible assurance that the digital document has not been altered since it was signed by the custodian of the record at an agency<\/span>.\n\t\t“Digitally certified copy<\/span>” means a copy of an electronic record created by an agency<\/span> to which the agency<\/span> has attached a digital signature<\/span>.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 2.2-3817)\n\nAs used in this section:\n\t\t“Agency” means any authority, board, commission, council,\ndepartment, instrumentality, institution, or other unit of state government\nlocated in the executive or legislative branch; independent agencies; and any\ncounty, city, or town, or other unit of local government, including\nconstitutional officers, except circuit court clerks.\n\t\t“Digital signature” means an electronic sound, symbol, or process\nattached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or\nadopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. A digital signature\nshall provide a means to authenticate an electronic record by confirming the\nagency as the disseminator of the document and shall provide both digital and\nvisible assurance that the digital document has not been altered since it was\nsigned by the custodian of the record at an agency.\n\t\t“Digitally certified copy” means a copy of an electronic record\ncreated by an agency to which the agency has attached a digital signature.\n\nHISTORY: 2017, c. 738.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}