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Article 1. Short Title and General Matters.
Sec. 45.08.101. Short title. - This chapter may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code -...
Sec. 45.08.102. Definitions. - (a) In this chapter, (1) “adverse claim” means a claim...
Sec. 45.08.103. Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets. - (a) A share or similar equity interest issued by a...
Sec. 45.08.104. Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest in security or financial asset. - (a) A person acquires a security or an interest in...
Sec. 45.08.105. Notice of adverse claim. - (a) A person has notice of an adverse claim if...
Sec. 45.08.106. Control. - (a) A purchaser has control of a certificated security in...
Sec. 45.08.107. Whether endorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective. - (a) An endorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective if...
Sec. 45.08.108. Warranties in direct holding. - (a) A person who transfers a certificated security to a...
Sec. 45.08.109. Warranties in indirect holding. - (a) A person who originates an entitlement order to a...
Sec. 45.08.110. Applicability; choice of law. - (a) The local law of the issuer's jurisdiction, as specified...
Sec. 45.08.111. Clearing corporation rules. - A rule adopted by a clearing corporation governing rights and...
Sec. 45.08.112. Creditor's legal process. - (a) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security...
Sec. 45.08.113. Statute of frauds inapplicable. - A contract or modification of a contract for the sale...
Sec. 45.08.114. Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities. - The following rules apply in an action on a certificated...
Sec. 45.08.115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant. - A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset under...
Sec. 45.08.116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value. - A securities intermediary that receives a financial asset and establishes...
Article 2. Issue - Issuer.
Sec. 45.08.201. “Issuer”. - (a) With respect to obligations on or defenses to a...
Sec. 45.08.202. Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense. - (a) Even against a purchaser for value and without notice,...
Sec. 45.08.203. Staleness as notice of defects or defenses. - (a) After an act or event, other than a call...
Sec. 45.08.204. Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer. - A restriction on transfer of a security imposed by the...
Sec. 45.08.205. Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate. - An unauthorized signature placed on a security certificate before or...
Sec. 45.08.206. Completion or alteration of certificated security. - (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to...
Sec. 45.08.207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners. - (a) Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a...
Sec. 45.08.208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent. - (a) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee,...
Sec. 45.08.209. Issuer's lien. - A lien in favor of an issuer upon a certificated...
Sec. 45.08.210. Overissue. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) of...
Article 3. Purchase.
Sec. 45.08.301. Delivery. - (a) Delivery of a certificated security to a purchaser occurs...
Sec. 45.08.302. Rights of purchaser. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) of...
Sec. 45.08.303. Protected purchaser. - (a) In this chapter, “protected purchaser” means a purchaser of...
Sec. 45.08.304. Endorsement. - (a) An endorsement may be in blank or special. An...
Sec. 45.08.305. Instruction. - (a) If an instruction has been originated by an appropriate...
Sec. 45.08.306. Effect of guaranteeing signature, endorsement, or instruction. - (a) A person who guarantees a signature of an endorser...
Sec. 45.08.307. Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer. - Unless otherwise agreed, the transferor of a security on due...
Article 4. Registration.
Sec. 45.08.401. Duty of issuer to register transfer. - (a) If a certificated security in registered form is presented...
Sec. 45.08.402. Assurance that endorsements and instructions are effective. - (a) An issuer may require the following assurance that each...
Sec. 45.08.403. Demand that issuer not register transfer. - (a) A person who is an appropriate person to make...
Sec. 45.08.404. Wrongful registration. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in AS 45.08.406, an issuer...
Sec. 45.08.405. Lost, destroyed, and stolen certificated securities. - (a) [Repealed, § 68 ch 17 SLA 1996.] (b) If...
Sec. 45.08.406. Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate. - If a security certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or...
Sec. 45.08.407. Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar. - A person acting as authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar, or...
Article 5. Security Entitlements.
Sec. 45.08.501. Acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary; securities account. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) of...
Sec. 45.08.502. Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder. - An action based on an adverse claim to a financial...
Sec. 45.08.503. Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary. - (a) To the extent necessary for a securities intermediary to...
Sec. 45.08.504. Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset. - (a) A securities intermediary shall promptly obtain and maintain a...
Sec. 45.08.505. Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions. - (a) A securities intermediary shall take action to obtain a...
Sec. 45.08.506. Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder. - A securities intermediary shall exercise rights with respect to a...
Sec. 45.08.507. Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order. - (a) A securities intermediary shall comply with an entitlement order...
Sec. 45.08.508. Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder's position to other form of security holding. - A securities intermediary shall act at the direction of an...
Sec. 45.08.509. Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute, regulation, or rule; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder. - (a) If the substance of a duty imposed upon a...
Sec. 45.08.510. Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder. - (a) In a case not covered by the priority rules...
Sec. 45.08.511. Priority among security interests and entitlement holders. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in (b) and (c) of...