Florida Administrative Code
1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
1B - Division of Library and Information Services
Chapter 1B-31 - REAL PROPERTY ELECTRONIC RECORDING
Section 1B-31.001 - General
Universal Citation: FL Admin Code R 1B-31.001
Current through Reg. 50, No. 249, December 24, 2024
(1) This rule prescribes standards for electronic recording of real property documents in those Florida counties in which the county recorder elects to accept electronic real property documents for recordation.
(2) These standards are based on recommendations of the Florida Electronic Advisory Committee and promulgated by the Department of State pursuant to section 695.27, F.S., Florida Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act.
(3) For the purpose of this chapter:
(a) "County Recorder" means the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, County Comptroller, or other official county recording
officer.
(b) "Electronic signature"
means an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically
associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent
to sign the document.
(c)
"eRecording" means electronic recording of real property documents.
(d) "Metadata" means data describing other
data to facilitate the understanding, use, and management of that
data.
(e) "Open architecture" means
computer architecture or software architecture that employs specifications that
are open to the public to allow for adding, upgrading and exchange of
components produced by a broad range of manufacturers.
(f) "Permanent or long-term" means any public
records as defined by section
119.011(11),
F.S., which have an established retention period of more than 10
years.
(g) "PDF" (Portable Document
Format) means the file format originally created by Adobe Systems for document
exchange allowing documents to be viewed as they were intended to appear. PDFs
are a common format for image exchange or Web presentation.
(h) "TIFF" (Tagged Image File Format) means
the variable-resolution bitmapped image format originally developed by the
Aldus Corporation (now part of Adobe Systems) and published as ISO 12639:2004,
Graphic technology-Prepress digital data exchange-Tag image file format for
image technology (TIFF/IT). TIFF is a common format for high-quality black and
white, gray-scaled, or color graphics of any resolution and is made up of
individual dots or pixels.
(i)
"URPERA" (Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act) means the body of
recommended legislation released in 2004 by the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) for adoption by state
legislatures. URPERA authorizes County Recorders to accept electronic documents
for recording in accordance with established standards. Florida adopted a
modified version of URPERA in 2007 (see section
695.27, F.S.).
(j) "Web portal" (gateway) means a site that
functions as a point of access to information or services on the World Wide
Web.
(k) "XML" (Extensible Markup
Language) means an extensible document language for specifying document
content. XML is not a predefined markup language but a metalanguage - 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.
Rulemaking Authority 695.27(5)(a) FS. Law Implemented 695.27(5)(a) FS.
New 5-22-08.
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