California housing & land-use law
10 CCR § 2729.5. Record Retention—Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
Title 10, California Code of Regulations (real estate), as enacted — this section's verbatim text. The library holds selected sections of this code, not the whole code.
- Edition
- 2026-09-23 official publisher snapshot
- Effective
- 2002-07-20
- Last updated
- 2026-09-26
- Jurisdiction
- California
§ 2729.5¶
Record Retention—Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
(a) A real estate broker who obtains documents in connection with any transaction for which a real estate broker license is required when such documents contain an electronic signature pursuant to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (Section 1633.1 et seq. of the Civil Code) or the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act shall retain a copy of such documents, including the electronic signatures. The broker shall retain a copy of such documents by: 1) Causing a paper copy of the document to be made or 2) By using electronic image storage media pursuant to Section 2729. The broker may retain copies of such documents at a location other than the broker's place of business.
(b) A broker shall maintain at the broker's office a means of viewing copies of documents or records stored pursuant to this section. After notice, such documents or records shall be made available for examination, inspection, and copying by the Commissioner or his or her designated representative during regular business hours. The broker shall provide, at the broker's expense, a paper copy of any document or record requested by the Bureau.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit a broker to avoid compliance with Section 10148 of the Code.
Official source: § 2729.5. Record Retention—Uniform Electronic Transactions Act..
Source snapshot retrieved: 2026-09-23T18:07:14.536Z.
New section filed 6-20-2002; operative 7-20-2002 (Register 2002, No. 25).
Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (b) filed 6-30-2014 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2014, No. 27).
Applicability basis: 1 CCR § 100 provides that an agency may add to, revise or delete text published in the California Code of Regulations without complying with the rulemaking procedure specified in article 5 of the APA only if the change does not materially alter any requirement, right, responsibility, condition, prescription or other regulatory element of any California Code of Regulations provision.
Version dates (indexing metadata): Effective 2002-07-20.
Date derivation (indexing metadata): This is the current publisher text. The filing history states: "1. New section filed 6-20-2002; operative 7-20-2002 (Register 2002, No. 25)." The later entry is: "2. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (b) filed 6-30-2014 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2014, No. 27).". Under 1 CCR § 100, a change without regulatory effect cannot materially alter a regulatory element. The indexing start is therefore the last substantive operative date, 2002-07-20. No earlier version is represented.