In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

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1. "Affiliate" means:

(a) With respect to an individual:

(i) A companion of the individual.

(ii) A lineal ancestor or descendant, whether by blood or adoption, of either the individual or a companion of the individual.

(iii) A companion of an ancestor or descendant described in item (ii) of this subdivision.

(iv) A sibling, aunt, uncle, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, niece, nephew, grandniece or grandnephew of the individual, whether related by the whole or the half blood or adoption, or a companion of any of them.

(v) Any other individual occupying the residence of the individual.

(b) With respect to a person other than an individual:

(i) Another person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with the person.

(ii) An officer, director, manager, member, partner, employee or trustee or other fiduciary of the person.

(iii) A companion of, or an individual occupying the residence of, an individual described in item (i) or (ii) of this subdivision.

2. "Companion" means:

(a) The spouse of an individual.

(b) The domestic partner of an individual.

(c) Another individual in a civil union with an individual.

3. "Court" means the superior court.

4. "Executory contract" means a contract, including a lease, under which each party has an unperformed obligation and the failure of a party to complete performance would constitute a material breach.

5. "Governmental unit" means an office, department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency of this state or a subdivision of this state.

6. "Lien" means an interest in property that secures payment or performance of an obligation.

7. "Mortgage" means a record, however denominated, that creates or provides for a consensual lien on real property or rents, even if it also creates or provides for a lien on personal property.

8. "Mortgagee" means a person entitled to enforce an obligation secured by a mortgage.

9. "Mortgagor" means a person that grants a mortgage or a successor in ownership of the real property described in the mortgage.

10. "Owner" means the person for whose property a receiver is appointed.

11. "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or other legal entity.

12. "Proceeds" means the following property:

(a) Whatever is acquired on the sale, lease, license, exchange or other disposition of receivership property.

(b) Whatever is collected on, or distributed on account of, receivership property.

(c) Rights arising out of receivership property.

(d) To the extent of the value of receivership property, claims arising out of the loss, nonconformity, or interference with the use of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to the property.

(e) To the extent of the value of receivership property and to the extent payable to the owner or mortgagee, insurance payable by reason of the loss or nonconformity of, defects or infringement of rights in, or damage to the property.

13. "Property" means all of a person’s right, title and interest, both legal and equitable, in real and personal property, tangible and intangible, wherever located and however acquired. Property includes proceeds, products, offspring, rents or profits of or from the property.

14. "Receiver" means a person who is appointed by the court as the court’s agent and, subject to the court’s direction, to take possession of, manage, and, if authorized by this chapter or court order, transfer, sell, lease, license, exchange, collect or otherwise dispose of receivership property.

15. "Receivership" means a proceeding in which a receiver is appointed.

16. "Receivership property" means the property of an owner that is described in the order appointing a receiver or a subsequent order. Receivership property includes any proceeds, products, offspring, rents, or profits of or from the property.

17. "Record", used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored on an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.

18. "Rents" means:

(a) Sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person.

(b) Sums payable to a mortgagor under a policy of rental-interruption insurance covering real property.

(c) Claims arising out of a default in the payment of sums payable for the right to possess or occupy real property of another person.

(d) Sums payable to terminate an agreement to possess or occupy real property of another person.

(e) Sums payable to a mortgagor for payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred in owning, operating and maintaining real property or constructing or installing improvements on real property.

(f) Other sums payable under an agreement relating to the real property of another person that constitute rents under law of this state other than this chapter.

19. "Secured obligation" means an obligation the payment or performance of which is secured by a security agreement.

20. "Security agreement" means an agreement that creates or provides for a lien.

21. "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record, either:

(a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol.

(b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol or process.

22. "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.