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Part 1 - Short Title and General Matters
8-101 - Short Title. - This Article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code--Investment Securities.
8-102 - Definitions. - (a) In this Article: (1) "Adverse claim" means a claim...
8-103 - Rules for Determining Whether Certain Obligations and Interests Are Securities or Financial Assests. - (a) A share or similar equity interest issued by a...
8-104 - Acquistion of Security or Financial Assest or Interest Therein. - (a) A person acquires a security or an interest therein,...
8-105 - Notice of Adverse Claim. - (a) A person has notice of an adverse claim if:...
8-106 - Control. - (a) A purchaser has "control" of a certificated security in...
8-107 - Whether Indorsement, Instruction, or Entitlement Order Is Effective. - (a) "Appropriate person" means: (1) with respect to an indorsement,...
8-108 - Warranties in Direct Holding. - (a) A person who transfers a certificated security to a...
8-109 - Warranties in Indirect Holding. - (a) A person who originates an entitlement order to a...
8-110 - Applicability; Choice of Law. - (a) The local law of the issuer's jurisdiction, as specified...
8-111 - Clearing Corporation Rules. - A rule adopted by a clearing corporation governing rights and...
8-112 - Creditor's Legal Process. - (a) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security...
8-113 - Statute of Frauds Generally Inapplicable. - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a contract or...
8-114 - Evidentiary Rules Concerning Certificated Securitites. - (1) Unless specifically denied in the pleadings, each signature on...
8-115 - Securities Intermediary and Others Not Liable to Adverse Claimant. - (1) took the action after it had been served with...
8-116 - Securities Intermediary as Purchaser for Value. - A securities intermediary that receives a financial asset and establishes...
Part 2 - Issue and Issuer
8-201 - Issuer. - (a) With respect to an obligation on or a defense...
8-202 - Issuer's Responsibility and Defenses; Notice of Defect or Defense. - (a) Even against a purchaser for value and without notice,...
8-203 - Staleness as Notice of Defect or Defense. - (1) requires the payment of money, the delivery of a...
8-204 - Effect of Issuer's Restriction on Transfer. - (1) the security is certificated and the restriction is noted...
8-205 - Effect of Unauthorized Signature on Security Certificate. - (1) an authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or other person...
8-206 - Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate. - (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to...
8-207 - Rights and Duties of Issuer With Respect to Registered Owners. - (a) Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a...
8-208 - Effect of Signature of Authenticating Trustee, Registrar, or Transfer Agent. - (a) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee,...
8-209 - Issuer's Lien. - A lien in favor of an issuer upon a certificated...
8-210 - Overissue. - (a) In this section, "overissue" means the issue of securities...
Part 3 - Transfer of Certificated and Uncertificated Securities
8-301 - Delivery. - (a) Delivery of a certificated security to a purchaser occurs...
8-302 - Rights of Purchaser. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c),...
8-303 - Protected Purchaser. - (a) "Protected purchaser" means a purchaser of a certificated or...
8-304 - Indorsement. - (a) An indorsement may be in blank or special. An...
8-305 - Instruction. - (a) If an instruction has been originated by an appropriate...
8-306 - Effect of Guaranteeing Signature, Indorsement, or Instruction. - (a) A person who guarantees a signature of an indorser...
8-307 - Purchaser's Right to Requisites for Registration of Transfer. - Transfer. Unless otherwise agreed, the transferor of a security on...
Part 4 - Registration
8-401 - Duty of Issuer to Register Transfer. - (a) If a certificated security in registered form is presented...
8-402 - Assurance That Indorsement or Instruction Is Effective. - (a) An issuer may require the following assurance that each...
8-403 - Demand That Issuer Not Register Transfer. - (a) A person who is an appropriate person to make...
8-404 - Wrongful Registration. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 8--406, an issuer...
8-405 - Replacement of Lost, Destroyed, or Wrongfully Taken Security Certificate. - (a) If an owner of a certificated security, whether in...
8-406 - Obligation to Notify Issuer of Lost, Destroyed, or Wrongfully Taken Security Certificate. - Wrongfully taken Security Certificate. If a security certificate has been...
8-407 - Authenticating Trustee, Transfer Agent, and Registrar. - A person acting as authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar, or...
A8P5 - Security Entitlements - PART 5 SECURITY ENTITLEMENTS
8-501 - Securities Account; Acquisition of Security Entitlement From Securities Intermediary. - (a) "Securities account" means an account to which a financial...
8-502 - Assertion of Adverse Claim Against Entitlement Holder. - An action based on an adverse claim to a financial...
8-503 - Property Interest of Entitlement Holder in Financial Asset Held by Securities Intermediary. - (a) To the extent necessary for a securities intermediary to...
8-504 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Maintain Financial Asset. - (a) A securities intermediary shall promptly obtain and thereafter maintain...
8-505 - Duty of Securities Intermediary With Respect to Payments and Distributions. - (a) A securities intermediary shall take action to obtain a...
8-506 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Exercise Rights as Directed by Entitlement Holder. - (1) the securities intermediary acts with respect to the duty...
8-507 - Duties of Securities Intermediary to Comply With Entitlement Order. - (a) A securities intermediary shall comply with an entitlement order...
8-508 - Duty of Securities Intermediary to Change Entitlement Holder's Position to Other Form of Security Holding. - Holder's Position to Other Form of Security Holding. A securities...
8-509 - Specification of Duties of Securities Intermediary by Other Statute or Regulation; Manner of Performance of Duties of Securities Intermediary and Exer - (a) If the substance of a duty imposed upon a...
8-510 - Rights of Purchaser of Security Entitlement From Entitlement Holder. - (a) In a case not covered by the priority rules...
8-511 - Priority Among Security Interests and Entitlement Holders. - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c),...
A8P6 - Transition Provisions for Revised Article 8 and for the Conforming Amendments to Articles 1, 5, 9 and 13. - PART 6 TRANSITION PROVISIONS FOR REVISED ARTICLE 8 AND FOR...
8-601 - Savings Clause; Effect on Prior Perfected Security Interest. - (a) As used in this Part, the term "this Act"...
8-602 - Cross-References to Former Article 8; Meaning or Interpretation. - (a) Any reference made in law to a bond or...