                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 2.2-3817)

As used in this section:
		&#8220;Agency&#8221; 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 court clerks.
		&#8220;Digital signature&#8221; 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 to sign the document. A digital signature
shall provide a means to authenticate an electronic record by confirming the
agency 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.
		&#8220;Digitally certified copy&#8221; means a copy of an electronic record
created by an agency to which the agency has attached a digital signature.

HISTORY: 2017, c. 738.