South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 22 - Counties
Article 22:03 - Electronic Recording
Chapter 22:03:01 - Electronic recording in county register of deeds office
Section 22:03:01:01 - Definitions

(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) "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) "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) "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) "Participating register of deeds," a register of deeds that has elected to accept electronic documents for recording in accordance with SDCL chapter 7-9 A;

(6) "PDF," a portable document format which is a common format for image exchange or world wide web presentation;

(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) "Submitter," a party who requests that an electronic document be recorded;

(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) "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 (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.