Section 7–103. (a) This article is subject to any treaty or statute of the United States or regulatory statute of the commonwealth to the extent the treaty, statute or regulatory statute is applicable.
(b) This article does not modify or repeal any law prescribing the form or content of a document of title or the services or facilities to be afforded by a bailee, or otherwise regulating a bailee's business in respects not specifically treated in this article. However, violation of such a law does not affect the status of a document of title that otherwise is within the definition of a document of title.
(c) This article modifies, limits and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, sections 101 through 107 of Title 1 of Public Law 106–229, 15 U.S.C. section 7001, et. seq., but does not modify, limit or supersede section 101(c) of said act at 15 U.S.C. Section 7001(c) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of said act at 15 U.S.C. Section 7003(b).
(d) To the extent there is a conflict between the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, in sections 1 to 18, inclusive, of chapter 110G and this article, this article governs.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XV - Regulation of Trade
Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code
Article 7 - Documents of Title
Section 7-502 - Rights Acquired by Due Negotiation
Section 7-401 - Irregularities in Issue of Receipt or Bill or Conduct of Issuer
Section 7-402 - Duplicate Document of Title; Overissue
Section 7-403 - Obligation of Bailee to Deliver; Excuse
Section 7-309 - Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Carrier's Liability
Section 7-404 - No Liability for Good–faith Delivery Pursuant to Document of Title
Section 7-501 - Form of Negotiation and Requirements of Due Negotiation
Section 7-503 - Document of Title to Goods Defeated in Certain Cases
Section 7-509 - Adequate Compliance With Commercial Contract
Section 7-505 - Indorser Not Guarantor for Other Parties
Section 7-506 - Delivery Without Indorsement: Right to Compel Indorsement
Section 7-507 - Warranties on Negotiations or Delivery of Document of Title
Section 7-508 - Warranties of Collecting Bank as to Documents of Title
Section 7-601 - Lost, Stolen, or Destroyed Documents of Title
Section 7-602 - Judicial Process Against Goods Covered by Negotiable Document of Title
Section 7-603 - Conflicting Claims; Interpleader
Section 7-308 - Enforcement of Carrier's Lien
Section 7-307 - Lien of Carrier
Section 7-210 - Enforcement of Warehouse's Lien
Section 7-305 - Destination Bills
Section 7-306 - Altered Bills of Lading
Section 7-102 - Definitions and Index of Definitions
Section 7-103 - Relation of Article to Treaty or Statute
Section 7-104 - Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Document of Title
Section 7-105 - Reissuance in Alternative Medium
Section 7-201 - Person That May Issue a Warehouse Receipt; Storage Under Bond
Section 7-202 - Form of Warehouse Receipt; Effect of Omission
Section 7-203 - Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription
Section 7-204 - Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Warehouse's Liability
Section 7-106 - Control of Electronic Document of Title
Section 7-206 - Termination of Storage at Warehouse Option
Section 7-207 - Goods Must Be Kept Separate; Fungible Goods
Section 7-208 - Altered Warehouse Receipts
Section 7-209 - Lien of Warehouse
Section 7-302 - Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title
Section 7-205 - Title Under Warehouse Receipt Defeated in Certain Cases
Section 7-303 - Diversion; Reconsignment; Change of Instructions