Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part I - Office of the Secretary
Subpart 1 - Departmental Administrative Procedures
Chapter 21 - Electronic Submittals and Electronic Signatures
Section I-2103 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Department-the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.

Electronic Document-any document in electronic, magnetic, optical, or other format, except an audio recording, used to create, transfer, approve, or store the document for subsequent retrieval. This may include data, text, codes, computer programs, software, or databases.

Electronic Document Receiving System -a set of apparatus, procedures, software, and/or records used to receive electronic documents.

Electronic Signature-any information in digital form that is included in or logically associated with an electronic document for the purpose of expressing the same meaning and intention as would a handwritten signature if affixed to an equivalent paper document with the same reference to the same content. An electronic document bears or has on it an electronic signature when it includes or has logically associated with it such information.

Subscriber-a person who has submitted a subscriber agreement to the department and has received authorization from the department to submit electronic documents using one of the department's electronic document receiving systems.

Subscriber Agreement-a document drafted by the department and signed with a handwritten wet ink signature by a person as defined in R.S. 30:2004, or with respect to an electronic signature device that the person will use to create his or her electronic signature, and whereon the person acknowledges the obligations connected with preventing compromise of the electronic signature device.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2043 and 9:2601.