RCW 62A.8-201
Issuer.
(1) With respect to an obligation on or a defense to a security, an "issuer" includes a person that:
(a) Places or authorizes the placing of its name on a security certificate, other than as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, to evidence a share, participation, or other interest in its property or in an enterprise, or to evidence its duty to perform an obligation represented by the certificate;
(b) Creates a share, participation, or other interest in its property or in an enterprise, or undertakes an obligation, that is an uncertificated security;
(c) Directly or indirectly creates a fractional interest in its rights or property, if the fractional interest is represented by a security certificate; or
(d) Becomes responsible for, or in place of, another person described as an issuer in this section.
(2) With respect to an obligation on or defense to a security, a guarantor is an issuer to the extent of its guaranty, whether or not its obligation is noted on a security certificate.
(3) With respect to registration of a transfer, issuer means a person on whose behalf transfer books are maintained.
[ 1995 c 48 § 17; 1986 c 35 § 8; 1965 ex.s. c 157 § 8-201. Cf. former RCW sections: RCW 62.01.029, and 62.01.060 through 62.01.062; 1955 c 35 §§ 62.01.029, and 62.01.060 through 62.01.062; prior: 1899 c 149 §§ 29, and 60 through 62; RRS §§ 3420, and 3451 through 3453.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1995 c 48: See RCW 62A.11-113.
Corporations, effect of merger or consolidation: RCW 23B.11.060.
Securities Act, issuer: RCW 21.20.005(10).
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 62A - Uniform Commercial Code
Chapter 62A.8 - Investment Securities.
62A.8-104 - Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
62A.8-105 - Notice of adverse claim.
62A.8-107 - Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement is effective.
62A.8-108 - Warranties in direct holding.
62A.8-109 - Warranties in indirect holding.
62A.8-110 - Applicability; choice of law.
62A.8-111 - Clearing corporation rules.
62A.8-112 - Creditor's legal process.
62A.8-113 - Statute of frauds inapplicable.
62A.8-114 - Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
62A.8-115 - Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
62A.8-116 - Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
62A.8-202 - Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
62A.8-203 - Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
62A.8-204 - Effect of issuer's restrictions on transfer.
62A.8-205 - Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
62A.8-206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.
62A.8-207 - Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
62A.8-208 - Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
62A.8-302 - Rights of purchaser.
62A.8-303 - Protected purchaser.
62A.8-306 - Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction.
62A.8-307 - Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer.
62A.8-401 - Duty of issuer to register transfer.
62A.8-402 - Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.
62A.8-403 - Demand that issuer not register transfer.
62A.8-404 - Wrongful registration.
62A.8-405 - Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
62A.8-407 - Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar.
62A.8-501 - Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.
62A.8-502 - Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
62A.8-504 - Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
62A.8-505 - Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
62A.8-506 - Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.
62A.8-507 - Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
62A.8-510 - Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
62A.8-511 - Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.