ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS
Known as the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act
The act spans §§ 1633–1633 (17 sections).
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Specht v. Netscape Communications Corp. (2002)
Most recently applied in 617 F. App'x 701 - Rolando Lemus v. Denny's Inc. (June 2015)
Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 428, Sec. 1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form.
(b) A contract may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because an electronic record was used in its formation.
(c) If a law requires a record to be in writing, an electronic record satisfies the law.
(d) If a law requires a signature, an electronic signature satisfies the law.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.