A document of title issued or a bailment that arises before the effective date of this act and the rights, obligations, and interests flowing from that document or bailment are governed by any statute or other rule amended or repealed by this act as if the amendment or repeal had not occurred and may be terminated, completed, consummated, or enforced under that statute or other rule.
(Apr. 27, 2013, D.C. Law 19-299, § 9, 60 DCR 2634.)
This Act will apply prospectively only to documents of title issued or bailments that arise after the effective date of the Act. To the extent that issues arise based upon documents of title or rights or obligations that arise prior to the effective date of this Act, prior law will apply to resolve those issues.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 28 - Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]
Subtitle I - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 7 - Documents of Title
§ 28:7–102. Definitions and index of definitions
§ 28:7–103. Relation of article to treaty or statute
§ 28:7–104. Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title
§ 28:7–105. Reissuance in alternative medium
§ 28:7–106. Control of electronic document of title
§ 28:7–201. Person that may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under bond
§ 28:7–202. Form of warehouse receipt; effect of omission
§ 28:7–203. Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription
§ 28:7–204. Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse’s liability
§ 28:7–205. Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases
§ 28:7–206. Termination of storage at warehouse’s option
§ 28:7–207. Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods
§ 28:7–208. Altered warehouse receipts
§ 28:7–210. Enforcement of warehouse’s lien
§ 28:7–302. Through bills of lading and similar documents of title
§ 28:7–303. Diversion; reconsignment; change of instructions
§ 28:7–304. Tangible bills of lading in a set
§ 28:7–306. Altered bills of lading
§ 28:7–308. Enforcement of carrier’s lien
§ 28:7–309. Duty of care; contractual limitation of carrier’s liability
§ 28:7–401. Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer
§ 28:7–402. Duplicate document of title; overissue
§ 28:7–403. Obligation of bailee to deliver; excuse
§ 28:7–404. No liability for good-faith delivery pursuant to document of title
§ 28:7–501. Form of negotiation and requirements of due negotiation
§ 28:7–502. Rights acquired by due negotiation
§ 28:7–503. Document of title to goods defeated in certain cases
§ 28:7–504. Rights acquired in absence of due negotiation; effect of diversion; stoppage of delivery
§ 28:7–505. Indorser not guarantor for other parties
§ 28:7–506. Delivery without indorsement: right to compel indorsement
§ 28:7–507. Warranties on negotiation or delivery of document of title
§ 28:7–508. Warranties of collecting bank as to documents of title
§ 28:7–509. Adequate compliance with commercial contract
§ 28:7–601. Lost, stolen, or destroyed documents of title
§ 28:7–602. Judicial process against goods covered by negotiable document of title