§ 12A-8-206. Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate.  


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  • Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate.

    (a)  If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:

    (1)any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and

    (2)even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.

    (b)  A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.

Added by Laws 1961, p. 154, § 8-206.  Amended by Laws 1984, c. 76, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 1984; Laws 1995, c. 242, § 22, eff. Feb. 1, 1996.