Any documents filed during the audio-video communication may be transmitted electronically, including but not limited to, facsimile, personal computers, host computers, other terminal devices, and local, state, and national data networks. The electronic data transmission may be served or executed by the person to whom it is sent, and returned in the same manner, and with the same force, effect, authority, and liability as an original document. All signatures on the electronic data transmission shall be treated as original signatures.
Ala. Code § 15-26-3 (1975)