2025 Session
Last amended: 2013 session
§ 3E.05 — Authentication of Official Electronic Record
Plain-Language Summary
The official publisher must authenticate electronic legal material so users can verify the document has not been changed. The publisher must provide a way for people to confirm that what they received matches the official published version.
3E.05 AUTHENTICATION OF OFFICIAL ELECTRONIC RECORD.
An official publisher of legal material in an electronic record that is designated as official under section 3E.04 shall authenticate the record. To authenticate an electronic record, the publisher shall provide a method for a user to determine that the record received by the user from the publisher is unaltered from the official record published by the publisher.
History:
2013 c 7 s 5,11
History: History: 2013 c 7 s 5,11
Practical Notes
Authentication protects you from relying on a tampered or outdated version of the law. When you access official electronic legal material, the authentication method lets you confirm you are reading the real, unaltered text.