NY State Technology Law § 301: Short Title (Electronic Signatures and Records Act)

Statutory Text (Verbatim)

§ 301. Short title

This article shall be known and may be cited as the “electronic signatures and records act”.

Rule Summary

New York State Technology Law § 301 designates Article 3 of the State Technology Law (§§ 301–309) as the “Electronic Signatures and Records Act” (ESRA). The section is purely nomenclatural and performs no substantive regulatory or evidentiary function.

Its significance is limited to citation, statutory reference, and interpretive labeling of the electronic‑records framework that follows in the succeeding sections.