Georgia Commons

Title 11. COMMERCIAL CODE

Chapter 8.

54 sections · 11-8-101 to 11-8-603

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 1. SHORT TITLE AND GENERAL MATTERS

  1. 11-8-101Short title.
  2. 11-8-102Definitions.
  3. 11-8-103Rules for determining whether certain obligations and interests are securities or financial assets.
  4. 11-8-104Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
  5. 11-8-105Notice of adverse claim.
  6. 11-8-106Control.
  7. 11-8-107Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective.
  8. 11-8-108Warranties in direct holding.
  9. 11-8-109Warranties in indirect holding.
  10. 11-8-110Applicability; choice of law.
  11. 11-8-111Clearing corporation rules.
  12. 11-8-112Creditor’s legal process.
  13. 11-8-113Statute of frauds inapplicable.
  14. 11-8-114Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
  15. 11-8-115Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
  16. 11-8-116Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 2. ISSUE AND ISSUER

  1. 11-8-201Issuer.
  2. 11-8-202Issuer’s responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
  3. 11-8-203Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
  4. 11-8-204Effect of issuer’s restriction on transfer.
  5. 11-8-205Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
  6. 11-8-206Completion or alteration of security certificate.
  7. 11-8-207Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
  8. 11-8-208Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.
  9. 11-8-209Issuer’s lien.
  10. 11-8-210Overissue.

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 3. TRANSFER OF CERTIFICATED AND UNCERTIFICATED SECURITIES

  1. 11-8-301Delivery.
  2. 11-8-302Rights of purchaser.
  3. 11-8-303Protected purchaser.
  4. 11-8-304Indorsement.
  5. 11-8-305Instruction.
  6. 11-8-306Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement, or instruction.
  7. 11-8-307Purchaser’s right to requisites for registration of transfer.

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 4. REGISTRATION

  1. 11-8-401Duty of issuer to register transfer.
  2. 11-8-402Assurance that indorsement or instruction is effective.
  3. 11-8-403Demand that issuer not register transfer.
  4. 11-8-404Wrongful registration.
  5. 11-8-405Replacement of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
  6. 11-8-406Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
  7. 11-8-407Authenticating trustee, transfer agent, and registrar.

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 5. SECURITY ENTITLEMENTS

  1. 11-8-501Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.
  2. 11-8-502Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
  3. 11-8-503Property interest of entitlement holder in financial asset held by securities intermediary.
  4. 11-8-504Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
  5. 11-8-505Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
  6. 11-8-506Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.
  7. 11-8-507Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
  8. 11-8-508Duty of securities intermediary to change entitlement holder’s position to other form of security holding.
  9. 11-8-509Specification of duties of securities intermediary by other statute or regulation; manner of performance of duties of securities intermediary and exercise of rights of entitlement holder.
  10. 11-8-510Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
  11. 11-8-511Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.

Article 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES · Part 6. TRANSITION PROVISIONS FOR REVISED ARTICLE 8 AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLES 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, AND 10

  1. 11-8-601Effective date.
  2. 11-8-602Repeals.Reserved
  3. 11-8-603Savings clause.