GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 753

Short Title:  Amend Article 8 of the UCC.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Daniel.
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Referred to:  Judiciary II.
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April 4, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 8, UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE – INVESTMENT SECURITIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 25 of the General Statutes reads as rewritten:
"ARTICLE 8.
"Investment Securities.
"PART 1.
"Short Title and General Matters.
"§ 25-8-101. Short title.
This article shall be known and may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code – Investment Securities.
"§ 25-8-102. Definitions and index of definitions.
		”						”	”	”	”						”	”””””””	(1)	In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a)	A ‘certificated security' is a share, participation, or other interest in property of or an enterprise of the issuer or an obligation of the issuer which is:
(i)	Represented by an instrument issued in bearer or registered form,
(ii)	Of a type commonly dealt in on securities exchanges or markets or commonly recognized in any area in which it is issued or dealt in as a medium for investment, and
(iii)	Either one of a class or series or by its terms divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests, or obligations.
(b)	An ‘uncertificated security' means a share, participation, or other interest in property or an enterprise of the issuer or an obligation of the issuer which is:
(i)	Not represented by an instrument and the transfer of which is registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer,
(ii)	Of a type commonly dealt in on securities exchanges or markets, and
(iii)	Either one of a class or series or by its terms divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interest, or obligations.
(iv)	Not a partnership interest in a limited partnership, unless the partnership interest is approved for trading on a national securities exchange registered under the federal securities laws or for quotation in the automated quotation system of a national securities association registered under the federal securities laws.
(c)	A ‘security' is either a certificated or an uncertificated security.  If a security is certificated, the terms ‘security' and ‘certificated security' may mean either the intangible interest, the instrument representing that interest, or both, as the context requires.  A writing that is a certificated security is governed by this article and not by Uniform Commercial Code – Commercial Paper, even though it also meets the requirements of that article.  This article does not apply to money.  If a certificated security has been retained by or surrendered to the issuer or its transfer agent for reasons other than registration of transfer, other temporary purpose, payment, exchange, or acquisition by the issuer, that security shall be treated as an uncertificated security for purposes of this article.
(d)	A certificated security is in ‘registered form' if
(i)	It specifies a person entitled to the security or the rights it represents, and
(ii)	Its transfer may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer, or the security so states.
(e)	A certificated security is in ‘bearer form' if it runs to bearer according to its terms and not by reason of any indorsement.
(2)	A ‘subsequent purchaser' is a person who takes other than by original issue.
(3)	A ‘clearing corporation' is a corporation registered as a ‘clearing agency' under the federal securities laws or a corporation:
(a)	At least ninety percent (90%) of whose capital stock is held by or for one or more organizations, none of which, other than a national securities exchange or association, holds in excess of twenty percent (20%) of the capital stock of the corporation, and each of which is (i) subject to supervision or regulation pursuant to the provisions of federal or State banking laws or State insurance laws, (ii) a broker or dealer or investment company registered under the federal securities laws, or (iii) a national securities exchange or association registered under the federal securities laws; and
(b)	Any remaining capital stock of which is held by individuals who have purchased it at or prior to the time of their taking office as directors of the corporation and who have purchased only so much of the capital stock as is necessary to permit them to qualify as directors.
(4)	A ‘custodian bank' is a bank or trust company that is supervised and examined by State or federal authority having supervision over banks and is acting as custodian for a clearing corporation.
(5)	Other definitions applying to this Article or to specified parts thereof and the sections in which they appear are:
‘Adverse claim'.	G.S. 25-8-302
‘Bona fide purchaser'.	G.S. 25-8-302
‘Broker'.	G.S. 25-8-303
‘Debtor'.	G.S. 25-9-105
‘Financial intermediary'.	G.S. 25-8-313
‘Guarantee of the signature'.	G.S. 25-8-402
‘Initial transaction statement'.	G.S. 25-8-408
‘Instruction'.	G.S. 25-8-308
‘Intermediary bank'.	G.S. 25-4-105
‘Issuer'.	G.S. 25-8-201
‘Overissue'.	G.S. 25-8-104
‘Secured Party'.	G.S. 25-9-105
‘Security Agreement'.	G.S. 25-9-105.
(6)	In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.
"§ 25-8-103.  Issuer's Lien.
A lien upon a security in favor of an issuer thereof is valid against a purchaser only if:
(a)	The security is certificated and the right of the issuer to the lien is noted conspicuously thereon; or
(b)	The security is uncertificated and a notation of the right of the issuer to the lien is contained in the initial transaction statement sent to the purchaser or, if his interest is transferred to him other than by registration of transfer, pledge, or release, the initial transaction statement sent to the registered owner or the registered pledgee.
"§ 25-8-104. Effect of overissue; ‘overissue.'
(1)	The provisions of this article which validate a security or compel its issue or reissue do not apply to the extent that validation, issue or reissue would result in overissue; but if
(a)	An identical security which does not constitute an overissue is reasonably available for purchase, the person entitled to issue or validation may compel the issuer to purchase the security for him and either to deliver a certificated security or to register the transfer of an uncertificated security to him, against surrender of any certificated security he holds; or
(b)	A security is not so available for purchase, the person entitled to issue or validation may recover from the issuer the price he or the last purchaser for value paid for it with interest from the date of his demand.
(2)	‘Overissue' means the issue of securities in excess of the amount which the issuer has corporate power to issue.
"§ 25-8-105.  Certificated securities negotiable; statements and instructions not negotiable; presumptions.
						(1)	Certificated securities governed by this article are negotiable instruments.
(2)	Statements (G.S. 25-8-408), notices, or the like, sent by the issuer of uncertificated securities and instructions (G.S. 25-8-308) are neither negotiable instruments nor certificated securities.
(3)	In any action on a security:
(a)	Unless specifically denied in the pleadings, each signature on a certificated security in a necessary indorsement, on an initial transaction statement or on an instruction, is admitted;
(b)	If the effectiveness of a signature is put in issue, the burden of establishing it is on the party claiming under the signature, but the signature is presumed to be genuine or authorized;
(c)	If signatures on a certificated security are admitted or established, production of the security entitles a holder to recover on it unless the defendant establishes a defense or a defect going to the validity of the security;
(d)	If signatures on an initial transaction statement are admitted or established, the facts stated in the statement are presumed to be true as of the time of its issuance; and
(e)	After it is shown that a defense or defect exists, the plaintiff has the burden of establishing that he or some person under whom he claims is a person against whom the defense or defect is ineffective (G.S. 25-8-202).
"§ 25-8-106. Applicability.
The law (including the conflict of laws rules) of the jurisdiction of organization of the issuer governs the validity of a security, the effectiveness of registration by the issuer, and the rights and duties of the issuer with respect to:
(a)	Registration of transfer of a certificated security;
(b)	Registration of transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security; and
(c)	Sending of statements of uncertificated securities.
"§ 25-8-107. Securities transferable; action for price.
(1)	Unless otherwise agreed and subject to any applicable law or regulation respecting short sales, a person obligated to transfer securities may transfer any certificated security of the specified issue in bearer form or registered in the name of the transferee or indorsed to him or in blank, or he may transfer an equivalent uncertificated security to the transferee or a person designated by the transferee.
(2)	If the buyer fails to pay the price as it comes due under a contract of sale the seller may recover the price of
(a)	Certificated securities accepted by the buyer; 
(a1)	Uncertificated securities that have been transferred to the buyer or a person designated by the buyer; and
(b)	Other securities if efforts at their resale would be unduly  burdensome or if there is no readily available market for their resale.
"§ 25-8-108. Registration of pledge and release of uncertificated securities.
A security interest in an uncertificated security may be evidenced by the registration of pledge to the secured party or a person designated by him.  There may be no more than one registered pledge of an uncertificated security at any time.  The registered owner of an uncertificated security is the person in whose name the security is registered, even if the security is subject to a registered pledge.  The rights of a registered pledgee of an uncertificated security under this article are terminated by the registration of release.
"PART 2.
"Issue – Issuer.
"§ 25-8-201. ‘Issuer.'
(1)	With respect to obligations on or defenses to a security ‘issuer' includes a person who
(a)	Places or authorizes the placing of his name on a certificated security (otherwise than as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent or the like) to evidence that it represents a share, participation or other interest in his property or in an enterprise or to evidence his duty to perform an obligation represented by the certificated security; 
(a1)	Create shares, participations, or other interests in his property or in an enterprise or undertakes obligations, which shares, participations, interests or obligations are certificated securities.
(b)	Directly or indirectly creates fractional interests in his rights or property which fractional interests are represented by certificated securities; or
(c)	Becomes responsible for or in place of any other person described as an issuer in this section.
(2)	With respect to obligations on or defenses to a security, a guarantor is an issuer to the extent of his guaranty whether or not his obligation is noted on a certificated security or on statements of uncertificated securities sent pursuant to G.S. 25-8-402.
(3)	With respect to registration of transfer, pledge, or release (part 4 of this article) ‘issuer' means a person on whose behalf transfer books are maintained. 
"§ 25-8-202. Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
					””(1)	Even against a purchaser for value and without notice the terms of a security include:
(a)	If the security is certificated, those stated on the security;
(b)	If the security is uncertificated, those contained in the initial transaction statement sent to such purchaser or, if his interest is transferred to him other than by registration of transfer, pledge, or release, the initial transaction statement sent to the registered owner or registered pledgee; and
(c)	Those made part of the security by reference, on the certificated security or in the initial transaction statement, to another instrument, indenture, or document or to a constitution, statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, order or the like, to the extent that the terms referred to do not conflict with the terms stated on the certificated security or contained in the statement.  A reference under this paragraph does not of itself charge a purchaser for value with notice of a defect going to the validity of the security, even though the certificated security or statement expressly states that a person accepting it admits notice.
(2)	A certificated security in the hands of a purchaser for value or an uncertificated security as to which an initial transaction statement has been sent to a purchaser for value, other than a security issued by a government or governmental agency or unit, even though issued with a defect going to its validity, is valid with respect to the purchaser if he is without notice of the particular defect unless the defect involves a violation of constitutional provisions, in which case the security is valid with respect to a subsequent purchaser for value and without notice of the defect.  This subsection applies to an issuer that is a government or governmental agency or unit only if either there has been substantial compliance with the legal requirements governing the issue or the issuer has received a substantial consideration for the issue as a whole or for the particular security and a stated purpose of the issue is one for which the issuer has power to borrow money or issue the security.
(3)	Except as provided in the case of certain unauthorized signatures (G.S. 25-8-205) lack of genuineness of a certificated security or an initial transaction statement is a complete defense, even against a purchaser for value and without notice.
(4)	All other defenses of the issuer of a certificated or uncertificated security, including nondelivery and conditional delivery of a certificated security, are ineffective against a purchaser for value who has taken without notice of the particular defense.
(5)	Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the right of a party to a ‘when, as and if issued' or a ‘when distributed' contract to cancel the contract in the event of a material change in the character of the security that is the subject of the contract or in the plan or arrangement pursuant to which the security is to be issued or distributed.
"§ 25-8-203.  Staleness as notice of defects or defenses.
(1)	After an act or event which creates a right to immediate performance of the principal obligation represented by a certificated security or which sets a date on or after which the security is to be presented or surrendered for redemption or exchange, a purchaser is charged with notice of any defect in its issue or defense of the issuer if
(a)	The act or event is one requiring the payment of money, the delivery of certificated securities, the registration of transfer of uncertificated securities, or any of these on presentation or surrender of the certificated security, the funds or securities are available on the date set for payment or exchange and he takes the security more than one year after that date; and
(b)	The act or event is not covered by paragraph (a) and he takes the security more than two years after the date set for surrender or presentation or the date on which such performance became due.
(2)	A call which has been revoked is not within subsection (1).
"§ 25-8-204. Effect of issuer's restrictions on transfer.
A restriction on transfer of a security imposed by the issuer, even if otherwise lawful, is ineffective against any person without actual knowledge of it unless:
(a)	The security is certificated and the restriction is noted conspicuously thereon; or
(b)	The security is uncertificated and a notation of the restriction is contained in the initial transaction statement sent to the person or, if his interest is transferred to him other than by registration of transfer, pledge, or release, the initial transaction statement sent to the registered owner or the registered pledgee.
"§ 25-8-205. Effect of unauthorized signature on certificated security or initial transaction statement.
		An unauthorized signature placed on a certificated security prior to or in the course of issue or placed on an initial transaction statement is ineffective, but the signature is effective in favor of a purchaser for value of the certificated security or a purchaser for value of an uncertificated security to whom the initial transaction statement has been sent, if the purchaser is without notice of the lack of authority and the signing has been done by:
(a)	An authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or other person entrusted by the issuer with the signing of the security, of similar securities, or of initial transaction statements or the immediate preparation for signing of any of them; or
(b)	An employee of the issuer, or of any of the foregoing, entrusted with responsible handling of the security or initial transaction statement.
"§ 25-8-206. Completion or alteration of certificated security or initial transaction statement.
			(1)	If a certificated security contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:
(a)	Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and
(b)	Even though the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.
(2)	A complete certificated security that has been improperly altered, even though fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.
(3)	If an initial transaction statement contains the signatures necessary to its validity, but is incomplete in any other respect:
(a)	Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and
(b)	Even though the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the statement as completed is effective in favor of the person to whom it is sent if he purchased the security referred to therein for value and without notice of the incorrectness.
(4)	A complete initial transaction statement that has been improperly altered, even though fraudulently, is effective in favor of a purchaser to whom it has been sent, but only according to its original terms.
"§ 25-8-207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners and registered pledgees.
		(1)	Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificated security in registered form, the issuer or indenture trustee may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notifications, and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner.
(2)	Subject to the provisions of subsections (3), (4), and (6) of this section, the issuer or indenture trustee may treat the registered owner of an uncertificated security as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notifications, and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner.
(3)	The registered owner of an uncertificated security that is subject to a registered pledge is not entitled to registration of transfer prior to the due presentment to the issuer of a release instruction.  The exercise of conversion rights with respect to a convertible uncertificated security is a transfer within the meaning of this section.
(4)	Upon due presentment of a transfer instruction from the registered pledgee of an uncertificated security, the issuer shall:
(a)	Register the transfer of the security to the new owner free of pledge, if the instruction specifies a new owner (who may be the registered pledgee) and does not specify a pledgee;
(b)	Register the transfer of the security to the new owner subject to the interest of the existing pledgee, if the instruction specifies a new owner and the existing pledgee; or
(c)	Register the release of the security from the existing pledge and register the pledge of the security to the other pledgee, if the instruction specifies the existing owner and another pledgee.
(5)	Continuity of perfection of a security interest is not broken by registration of transfer under subsection (4)(b) or by registration of release and pledge under subsection (4)(c), if the security interest is assigned.
(6)	If an uncertificated security is subject to a registered pledge:
(a)	Any uncertificated securities issued in exchange for or distributed with respect to the pledged security shall be registered subject to the pledge;
(b)	Any certificated securities issued in exchange for or distributed with respect to the pledged security shall be delivered to the registered pledgee; and
(c)	Any money paid in exchange for or in redemption of part or all of the security shall be paid to the registered pledgee.
(7)	Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect the liability of the registered owner of a security for calls, assessments, or the like.
"§ 25-8-208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent.
			(1)	A  person placing his signature upon a certificated security or an initial transaction statement as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, warrants to a purchaser for value of the certificated security or a purchaser for value of an uncertificated security to whom the initial transaction statement has been sent, if the purchaser is without notice of the particular defect, that:
(a)	The certificated security or initial transaction statement is genuine;
(b)	His own participation in the issue or registration of the transfer, pledge, or release of the security is within his capacity and within the scope of the authority received by him from the issuer; and
(c)	He has reasonable grounds to believe that the security is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue.
(2)	Unless otherwise agreed, a person by so placing his signature does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.
"PART 3.
"Transfer.
"§ 25-8-301. Rights acquired by purchaser. 
	”		(1)	Upon transfer of a security to a purchaser (G.S. 25-8-313), the purchaser acquires the rights in the security which his transferor had or had actual authority to convey unless the purchaser's rights are limited by G.S. 25-8-302(4).
(2)	A transferee of a limited interest acquires rights only to the extent of the interest transferred.  The creation or release of a security interest in a security is the transfer of a limited interest in that security.
"§ 25-8-302. ”‘Bona fide purchaser'; ‘adverse claim' title acquired by bona fide purchaser.
”(1)	A ‘bona fide purchaser' is a purchaser for value in good faith and without notice of any adverse claim:
(a)	Who takes delivery of a certificated security in bearer form or in registered form, issued or indorsed to him or in blank;
(b)	To whom the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security is registered on the books of the issuer; or
(c)	To whom a security is transferred under the provisions of paragraph (c), (d)(i), or (g) of G.S. 25-8-313(1).
(2)	‘Adverse claim' includes a claim that a transfer was or would be wrongful or that a particular adverse person is the owner of or has an interest in the security.
(3)	A bona fide purchaser in addition to acquiring the rights of a purchaser (G.S. 25-8-301), also acquires his interest in the security free of any adverse claim.
(4)	Notwithstanding G.S. 25-8-301 the transferee of a particular certificated security who has been a party to any fraud or illegality affecting the security, or who as a prior holder of that certificated security had notice of an adverse claim, cannot improve his position by taking from a bona fide purchaser.
"§ 25-8-303. ‘Broker'.
‘Broker' means a person engaged for all or part of his time in the business of buying and selling securities, who in the transaction concerned acts for, or buys a security from or sells a security to a customer. Nothing in this article determines the capacity in which a person acts for purposes of any other statute or rule to which such person is subject. 
"§ 25-8-304. Notice to purchaser of adverse claims.
(1)	A purchaser (including a broker for the seller or buyer but excluding an intermediary bank) of a certificated security is charged with notice of adverse claims if
(a)	The security whether in bearer or registered form has been indorsed ‘for collection' or ‘for surrender' or for some other purpose not involving transfer; or
(b)	The security is in bearer form and has on it an unambiguous statement that it is the property of a person other than the transferor. The mere writing of a name on a security is not such a statement.
	(2)	A purchaser (including a broker for the seller or buyer, but excluding an intermediary bank) to whom the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security is registered is charged with notice of adverse claims as to which the issuer has a duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4) at the time of registration and which are noted in the initial transaction statement sent to the purchaser or, if his interest is transferred to him other than by registration of transfer, pledge, or release, the initial transaction statement sent to the registered owner or the registered pledgee.
(3)	The fact that the purchaser (including a broker for the seller or buyer) of a certificated or uncertificated security has notice that the security is held for a third person or is registered in the name of or indorsed by a fiduciary does not create a duty of inquiry into the rightfulness of the transfer or constitute constructive notice of adverse claims.  However, if the purchaser (excluding an intermediary bank) has knowledge that the proceeds are being used or that the transaction is for the individual benefit of the fiduciary or otherwise in breach of duty, the purchaser is charged with notice of adverse claims.
"§ 25-8-305. Staleness as notice of adverse claims.
An act or event which creates a right to immediate performance of the principal obligation represented by a certificated security or which sets a date on or after which a certificated security is to be presented or surrendered for redemption or exchange does not of itself constitute any notice of adverse claims except in the case of a transfer:
(a)	After one year from any date set for such presentment or surrender for redemption or exchange; or
(b)	After six months from any date set for payment of money against presentation or surrender of the security if funds are available for payment on that date.
"§ 25-8-306. Warranties on presentment and transfer of certificated securities; warranties of originators of instructions.
(1)	A person who presents a certificated security for registration of transfer or for payment or exchange warrants to the issuer that he is entitled to the registration, payment or exchange. But a purchaser for value without notice of adverse claims who receives a new, reissued or re-registered certificated security on registration of transfer or receives an initial transaction statement confirming the registration of transfer of an equivalent uncertificated security to him warrants only that he has no knowledge of any unauthorized signature (G.S. 25-8-311) in a necessary indorsement.
(2)	A person by transferring a certificated security to a purchaser for value warrants only that
(a)	His transfer is effective and rightful; 
(b)	The security is genuine and has not been materially altered; and
(c)	He knows no fact which might impair the validity of the security.
(3)	If a certificated security is delivered by an intermediary known to be entrusted with delivery of the security on behalf of another or with collection of a draft or other claim against such delivery, the intermediary by such delivery warrants only his own good faith and authority even though he has purchased or made advances against the claim to be collected against the delivery.
(4)	A pledgee or other holder for security who redelivers a certificated security received, or after payment and on order of the debtor delivers that security to a third person makes only the warranties of an intermediary under subsection (3).
	(5)	A person who originates an instruction warrants to the issuer that:
(a)	He is an appropriate person to originate the instruction; and
(b)	At the time the instruction is presented to the issuer he will be entitled to the registration of transfer, pledge, or release.
(6)	A person who originates an instruction warrants to any person specially guaranteeing his signature (G.S. 25-8-312(3)) that:
(a)	He is an appropriate person to originate the instruction; and
(b)	At the time the instruction is presented to the issuer:
(i)	He will be entitled to the registration of transfer, pledge, or release; and
(ii)	The transfer, pledge, or release requested in the instruction will be registered by the issuer free from all liens, security interests, restrictions, and claims other than those specified in the instruction.
(7)	A person who originates an instruction warrants to a purchaser for value and to any person guaranteeing the instruction (G.S. 25-8-312(6)) that:
(a)	He is an appropriate person to originate the instruction;
(b)	The uncertificated security referred to therein is valid; and
(c)	At the time the instruction is presented to the issuer:
(i)	The transferor will be entitled to the registration of transfer, pledge, or release;
(ii)	The transfer, pledge, or release requested in the instruction will be registered by the issuer free from all liens, security interests, restrictions, and claims other than those specified in the instruction; and
(iii)	The requested transfer, pledge, or release will be rightful.
(8)	If a secured party is the registered pledgee or the registered owner of an uncertificated security, a person who originates an instruction of release or transfer to the debtor, or, after payment and on order of the debtor, a  transfer instruction to a third person, warrants to the debtor or the the third person only that he is an appropriate person to originate the instruction and, at the time the instruction is presented to the insurer, the transferor will be entitled to the registration of release or transfer.  If a transfer instruction to a third person who is a purchaser for value is originated on order of the debtor, the debtor makes to the purchaser the warranties of paragraphs (b), (c)(ii) and (c)(iii) of subsection (7).
(9)	A person who transfers an uncertificated security to a purchaser for value and does not originate an instruction in connection with the transfer warrants only that:
(a)	His transfer is effective and rightful; and
(b)	The uncertificated security is valid.
(10)	A broker gives to his customer and to the issuer and a purchaser the applicable warranties provided in this section and has the rights and privileges of a purchaser under this section.  The warranties of and in favor of the broker, acting as an agent, are in addition to applicable warranties given by and in favor of his customer.
"§ 25-8-307. Effect of delivery without indorsement; right to compel indorsement.
If a certificated security in registered form has been delivered to a purchaser without a necessary indorsement he may become a bona fide purchaser only as of the time the indorsement is supplied, but against the transferor the transfer is complete upon delivery and the purchaser has a specifically enforceable right to have any necessary indorsement supplied. 
"§ 25-8-308. Indorsements; instructions.
			”											(1)	An indorsement of a certificated security in registered form is made when an appropriate person signs on it or on a separate document an assignment or transfer of the security or a power to assign or transfer it or his signature is written without more upon the back of the security.
(2)	An indorsement may be in blank or special.  An indorsement in blank includes an indorsement to bearer.  A special indorsement specifies to whom the security is to be transferred, or who has power to transfer it.  A holder may convert a blank indorsement into a special indorsement.
(3)	An indorsement purporting to be only of part of a certificated security representing units intended by the issuer to be separately transferable is effective to the extent of the indorsement.
(4)	An ‘instruction' is an order to the issuer of an uncertificated security requesting that the transfer, pledge, or release from pledge of the uncertificated security specified therein be registered.
(5)	An instruction originated by an appropriate person is:
(a)	A writing signed by an appropriate person; or
(b)	A communication to the issuer in any form agreed upon in a writing signed by the issuer and an appropriate person.
If an instruction has been originated by an appropriate person but is incomplete in any other respect, any person may complete it as authorized and the issuer may rely on it as completed even though it has been completed incorrectly.
(6)	‘An appropriate person' in subsection (1) means the person specified by the certificated security or by special indorsement to be entitled to the security.
(7)’An appropriate person' in subsection (5) means:
(a)	For an instruction to transfer or pledge an uncertificated security which is then not subject to a registered pledge, the registered owner; or
(b)	For an instruction to transfer or release an uncertificated security which is then subject to a registered pledge, the registering pledgee.
(8)	In addition to the persons designated in subsections (6) and (7) of this section, ‘an appropriate person' in subsections (1) and (5) of this section includes:
(a)	If the person designated is described as a fiduciary but is no longer serving in the described capacity, either that person or his successor;
(b)	If the persons designated are described as more than one person as fiduciaries and one or more are no longer serving in the described capacity, the remaining fiduciary or fiduciaries, whether or not a successor has been appointed or qualified;
(c)	If the person designated is an individual and is without capacity to act by virtue of death, incompetence, infancy, or otherwise, his executor, administrator, guardian, or like fiduciary;
(d)	If the persons designated are described as more than one person as tenants by the entirety or with right of survivorship and by reason of death all cannot sign, the survivor or survivors;
(e)	A person having power to sign under applicable law or controlling instrument; and
(f)	To the extent that the person designated or any of the foregoing persons may act through an agent, his authorized agent.
(9)	Unless otherwise agreed, the indorser of a certificated security by his indorsement or the originator of an instruction by his origination assume no obligation that the security will be honored by the issuer but only the obligations provided in G.S. 25-8-306.
(10)	Whether the person signing is appropriate is determined as of the date of signing and an indorsement made by or an instruction originated by him does not become unauthorized for the purposes of this article by virtue of any subsequent change of circumstances.
(11)	Failure of a fiduciary to comply with a controlling instrument or with the law of the state having jurisdiction of the fiduciary relationship, including any law requiring the fiduciary to obtain court approval of the transfer, pledge, or release, does not render his indorsement or an instruction originated by him unauthorized for the purposes of this article.
"§ 25-8-309. Effect of indorsement without delivery.
An indorsement of a certificated security whether special or in blank does not constitute a transfer until delivery of the certificated security on which it appears or if the indorsement is on a separate document until delivery of both the document and the security. 
"§ 25-8-310. Indorsement of security in bearer form.
An indorsement of a certificated security in bearer form may give notice of adverse claims (G.S. 25-8-304) but does not otherwise affect any right to registration the holder may possess.
"§ 25-8-311. Effect of unauthorized indorsement or instruction.
Unless the owner or pledgee has ratified an unauthorized indorsement or instruction or is otherwise precluded from asserting its ineffectiveness
(a)	He may assert its ineffectiveness against the issuer or any purchaser other than a purchaser for value and without notice of adverse claims who has in good faith received a new, reissued or re-registered certificated security on registration of transfer or received an initial transaction statement confirming the registration of transfer, pledge, or release of an equivalent uncertificated security to him; and
(b)	An issuer who registers the transfer of a certificated security upon the unauthorized indorsement or who registers the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security upon the unauthorized instruction is subject to liability for improper registration (G.S. 25-8-404).
"§ 25-8-312.  Effect of guaranteeing signature, indorsement or instruction.
						(1)	Any person guaranteeing a signature of an indorser of a certificated security warrants that at the time of signing:
(a)	The signature was genuine;
(b)	The signer was an appropriate person to indorse (G.S. 25-8-308); and
(c)	The signer had legal capacity to sign.
(2)	Any person guaranteeing a signature of the originator of an instruction warrants that at the time of signing:
(a)	The signature was genuine;
(b)	The signer was an appropriate person to originate the instruction (G.S. 25-8-308) if the person specified in the instruction as the registered owner or registered pledgee of the uncertificated security was, in fact, the registered owner or registered pledgee of the security, as to which fact the signature guarantor makes no warranty;
(c)	The signer had legal capacity to sign; and
(d)	The taxpayer identification number, if any, appearing on the instruction as that of the registered owner or registered pledgee was the taxpayer identification number of the signer or of the owner or pledgee for whom the signer was acting.
(3)	Any person specially guaranteeing the signature of the originator of an instruction makes not only the warranties of a signature guarantor (subsection (2) but also warrants that at the time the instruction is presented to the issuer:
(a)	The person specified in the instruction as the registered owner or registered pledgee of the uncertificated security will be the registered owner or registered pledgee; and
(b)	The transfer, pledge, or release of the uncertificated security requested in the instruction will be registered by the issuer free from all liens, security interests, restrictions, and claims other than those specified in the instruction.
(4)	The guarantor under subsections (1) and (2) or the special guarantor under subsection (3) does not otherwise warrant the rightfulness of the particular transfer, pledge, or release.
(5)	Any person guaranteeing an indorsement of a certificated security makes not only the warranties of a signature guarantor under subsection (1) but also warrants the rightfulness of the particular transfer in all respects.
(6)	Any person guaranteeing an instruction requesting the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security makes not only the warranties of a special signature guarantor under subsection (3) but also warrants the rightfulness of the particular transfer, pledge, or release in all respects.
(7)	No issuer may require a special guarantee of signature (subsection (3)), a guarantee of indorsement (subsection (5)), or a guarantee of instruction (subsection (6)) as a condition to registration of transfer, pledge, or release.
(8)	The foregoing warranties are made to any person taking or dealing with the security in reliance on the guarantee, and the guarantor is liable to the person for any loss resulting from breach of the warranties.
"§ 25-8-313. When transfer to purchaser occurs; financial intermediary as bona fide purchaser; ‘financial intermediary'.
								(1)	Transfer of a security or a limited interest (including a security interest) therein to a purchaser occurs only:
(a)	At the time he or a person designated by him acquires possession of a certificated security;
(b)	At the time the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security is registered to him or a person designated by him;
(c)	At the time his financial intermediary acquires possession of a certificated security specially indorsed to or issued in the name of the purchaser;
(d)	At the time a financial intermediary, not a clearing corporation, sends him confirmation of the purchase and also by book entry or otherwise identifies as belonging to the purchaser:
(i)	A specific certificated security in the financial intermediary's possession;
(ii)	A quantity of securities that constitute or are part of a fungible bulk of certificated securities in the financial intermediary's possession or of uncertificated securities registered in the name of the financial intermediary; or
(iii)	A quantity of securities that constitute or are part of a fungible bulk of securities shown on the account of the financial intermediary on the books of another financial intermediary.
(e)	With respect to an identified certificated security to be delivered while still in the possession of a third person, not a financial intermediary, at the time that person acknowledges that he holds for the purchaser;
(f)	With respect to a specific uncertificated security the pledge or transfer of which has been registered to a third person, not a financial intermediary, at the time that person acknowledges that he holds for the purchaser;
(g)	At the time appropriate entries to the account of the purchaser or a person designated by him on the books of a clearing corporation are made under G.S. 25-8-320;
(h)	With respect to the transfer of a security interest where the debtor has signed a security agreement containing a description of the security, at the time a written notification, which, in the case of the creation of the security interest, is signed by the debtor (which may be a copy of the security agreement) or which, in the case of the release or assignment of the security interest created pursuant to this paragraph, is signed by the secured party, is received by:
(i)	A financial intermediary on whose books the interest of the transferor in the security appears;
(ii)	A third person, not a financial intermediary, in possession of the security, if it is certificated;
(iii)	A third person, not a financial intermediary, who is the registered owner of the security, if it is uncertificated and not subject to a registered pledge; or
(iv)	A third person, not a financial intermediary, who is the registered pledgee of the security, if it is uncertificated and subject to a registered pledge.
(i)	With respect to the transfer of a security interest where the transferor has signed a security agreement containing a description of the security, at the time new value is given by the secured party; or
(j)	With respect to the transfer of a security interest where the secured party is a financial intermediary and the security has already been transferred to the financial intermediary under paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), or (g), at the time the transfer has signed a security agreement containing a description of the security and value is given by the secured party.
(2)	The purchaser is the owner of a security held for him by a financial intermediary, but cannot be a bona fide purchaser of a security so held except in the circumstances specified in paragraphs (c), (d), (i), and (g) of subsection (1).  If a security so held is part of a fungible bulk, as in the circumstances specified in paragraph (d)(ii) and (d)(iii) of subsection (1), the purchaser is the owner of a proportionate property interest in the fungible bulk.
(3)	Notice of an adverse claim received by the financial intermediary or by the purchaser after the financial intermediary takes delivery of a certificated security as a holder for value or after the transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security has been registered free of the claim to a financial intermediary who has given value is not effective either as to the financial intermediary or as to the purchaser.  However, as between the financial intermediary and the purchaser, the purchaser may demand transfer of an equivalent security as to which no notice of adverse claim has been received.
(4)	A ‘financial intermediary' is a bank, broker, clearing corporation, or other person (or the nominee of any of them) which in the ordinary course of its business maintains security accounts for its customers and is acting in that capacity.  A financial intermediary may have a security interest in securities held in account for its customer.
"§ 25-8-314.  Duty to transfer, when completed.
				(1)	Unless otherwise agreed, if a sale of a security is made on an exchange or otherwise through brokers:
(a)	The selling customer fulfills his duty to transfer at the time he:
(i)	Places a certificated security in the possession of the selling broker or a person designated by the broker;
(ii)	Causes an uncertificated security to be registered in the name of the selling broker or a person designated by the broker;
(iii)	If requested, causes an acknowledgment to be made to the selling broker that a certificated or uncertificated security is held for the broker; or
(iv)	Places in the possession of the selling broker or of a person designated by the broker a transfer instruction for an uncertificated security, providing the issuer does not refuse to register the requested transfer if the instruction is presented to the issuer for registration within 30 days thereafter; and
(b)	The selling broker, including a correspondent broker acting for a selling customer, fulfills his duty to transfer at the time he:
(i)	Places a certificated security in the possession of the buying broker or a person designated by the buying broker;
(ii)	Causes an uncertificated security to be registered in the name of the buying broker or a person designated by the buying broker;
(iii)	Places in the possession of the buying broker or of a person designated by the buying broker a transfer instruction for an uncertificated security, providing the issuer does not refuse to register the requested transfer if the instruction is presented to the issuer for registration within 30 days thereafter; or
(iv)	Effects clearance of the sale in accordance with the rules of the exchange on which the transaction took place.
(2)	Except as provided in this section or unless otherwise agreed, a transferor's duty to transfer a security under a contract of purchase is not fulfilled until he:
(a)	Places a certificated security in form to be negotiated by the purchaser in the possession of the purchaser or of a person designated by the purchaser;
(b)	Causes an uncertificated security to be registered in the name of the purchaser or a person designated by the purchaser; or
(c)	If the purchaser requests, causes an acknowledgment to be made to the purchaser that a certificated or uncertificated security is held for the purchaser.
(3)	Unless made on an exchange, a sale to a broker purchasing for his own account is within subsection (2) and not within subsection (1).
"§ 25-8-315. Action against transferee based upon wrongful transfer.
			(1)	Any person against whom the transfer of a security is wrongful for any reason, including his incapacity, as against anyone except a bona fide purchaser, may:
(a)	Reclaim possession of the certificated security wrongfully transferred;
(b)	Obtain possession of any new certificated security representing all or part of the same rights;
(c)	Compel the origination of an instruction to transfer to him or a person designated by him an uncertificated security constituting all or part of the same rights; or
(d)	Have damages.
(2)	If the transfer is wrongful because of an unauthorized indorsement of a certificated security, the owner may also reclaim or obtain possession of the security or a new certificated security, even from a bona fide purchaser, if the ineffectiveness of the purported indorsement can be asserted against him under the provisions of this Article on unauthorized indorsements (G.S. 25-8-311).
(3)	The right to obtain or reclaim possession of a certificated security or to compel the origination of a transfer instruction may be specifically enforced and the transfer of a certificated or uncertificated security enjoined and a certificated security impounded pending the litigation.
"§ 25-8-316. Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer, pledge, or release on books.
Unless otherwise agreed, the transferor of a certificated security or the transferor, pledgor, or pledgee of an uncertificated security on due demand shall supply his purchaser with any proof of his authority to transfer, pledge, or release or with any other requisite necessary to obtain registration of the transfer, pledge, or release of the security; but if the transfer, pledge, or release is not for value, a transferor, pledgor, or pledgee need not do so unless the purchaser furnishes the necessary expenses.  Failure within a reasonable time to comply with a demand made gives the purchaser the right to reject or rescind the transfer, pledge, or release.
"§ 25-8-317.  Creditors' rights.
		(1)	Subject to the exceptions in subsections (3) and (4) of this section, no attachment or levy upon a certificated security or any share or other interest represented thereby which is outstanding is valid until the security is actually seized by the officer making the attachment or levy, but a certificated security which has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process at the issuer's chief executive office in the United States.
(2)	An uncertified security registered in the name of the debtor may not be reached by a creditor except by legal process at the issuer's chief executive office in the United States.
(3)	The interest of a debtor in a certificated security that is in the possession of a secured party not a financial intermediary or in an uncertificated security registered in the name of a secured party not a financial intermediary (or in the name of a nominee of the secured party) may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the secured party.
(4)	The interest of a debtor in a certificated security that is in the possession of or registered in the name of a financial intermediary or in an uncertificated security registered in the name of a financial intermediary may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the financial intermediary on whose books the interests of the debtor appears.
(5)	Unless otherwise provided by law, a creditor's lien upon the interest of a debtor in a security obtained pursuant to subsection (3) or (4) of this section is not a restraint on the transfer of the security, free of the lien, to a third party for new value; but in the event of a transfer, the lien applies to the proceeds of the transfer in the hands of the secured party or financial intermediary, subject to any claims having priority.
(6)	A creditor whose debtor is the owner of a security is entitled to aid from courts of appropriate jurisdiction, by injunction or otherwise, in reaching the security or in satisfying the claim by means allowed at law or in equity in regard to property that cannot readily be reached by ordinary legal process.
"§ 25-8-318. No conversion by good faith conduct.
An agent or bailee who in good faith (including observance of reasonable commercial standards if he is in the business of buying, selling or otherwise dealing with securities) has received certificated securities and sold, pledged or delivered them or has sold or caused the transfer or pledge of uncertificated securities over which he had control according to the instructions of his principal is not liable for conversion or for participation in breach of fiduciary duty although the principal had no right to so deal with the securities.
"§ 25-8-319. Statute of frauds.
A contract for the sale of securities is not enforceable by way of action or defense unless
(a)	There is some writing signed by the party against whom enforcement is sought or by his authorized agent or broker sufficient to indicate that a contract has been made for sale of a stated quantity of described securities at a defined or stated price; 
(b)	Delivery of a certificated security or transfer instruction has been accepted, or transfer of an uncertificated security has been registered and the transferee has failed to send written objection to the issuer within 10 days after receipt of the initial transaction statement confirming the registration, or payment has been made but the contract is enforceable under this provision only to the extent of such delivery or payment; 
(c)	Within a reasonable time a writing in confirmation of the sale or purchase and sufficient against the sender under paragraph (a) has been received by the party against whom enforcement is sought and he has failed to send written objection to its contents within ten days after its receipt; or
(d)	The party against whom enforcement is sought admits in his pleading, testimony or otherwise in court that a contract was made for sale of a stated quantity of described securities at a defined or stated price. 
"§ 25-8-320. Transfer or pledge within a central depository system.
								(1)	In addition to other methods, a transfer, pledge, or release of a security or any interest therein may be effected by the making of appropriate entries on the books of a clearing corporation reducing the account of the transferor, pledgor, or pledgee and increasing the account of the transferee, pledgee, or pledgor by the amount of the obligation or the number of shares or rights transferred, pledged, or released, if the security is shown on the account of a transferor, pledgor, or pledgee on the books of the clearing corporation; is subject to the control of the clearing corporation; and
(a)	If certificated,
(i)	Is in the custody of the clearing corporation, another clearing corporation, a custodian bank, or a nominee of any of them; and
(ii)	Is in bearer form or indorsed in blank by an appropriate person or registered in the name of the clearing corporation, a custodian bank, or a nominee of any of them; or
(b)	If uncertificated, is registered in the name of the clearing corporation, another clearing corporation, a custodian bank, or a nominee of any of them.
(2)	Under this section entries may be made with respect to like securities or interests therein as a part of a fungible bulk and may refer merely to a quantity of a particular security without reference to the name of the registered owner, certificate or bond number, or the like, and, in appropriate cases, may be on a net basis taking into account other transfers, pledges, or releases of the same security.
(3)	A transfer under this section is effective (G.S. 25-8-313) and the purchaser acquires the rights of the transferor (G.S. 25-8-301).  A pledge or release under this section is the transfer of a limited interest.  If a pledge or the creation of a security interest is intended, the security interest is perfected at the time when both value is given by the pledgee and the appropriate entries are made (G.S. 25-8-321).  A transferee or pledgee under this section may be a bona fide purchaser (G.S. 25-8-302).
(4)	A transfer or pledge under this section is not a registration of transfer under Part 4 of this Article.
(5)	That entries made on the books of the clearing corporation as provided in subsection (1) are not appropriate does not affect the validity or effect of the entries or the liabilities or obligations of the clearing corporation to any person adversely affected thereby.
"§ 25-8-321.  Enforceability, attachment, perfection and termination of security interests.
(1)	A security interest in a security is enforceable and can attach only if it is transferred to the secured party or a person designated by him pursuant to G.S. 25-8-313(1).
(2)	A security interest so tranferred pursuant to agreement by a transferor who has rights in the security to a transferee who has given value is a perfected security interest, but a security interest that has been transferred solely under paragraph (i) of G.S. 25-8-313(1) becomes unperfected after 21 days unless, within that time, the requirements for transfer under any other provision of G.S. 25-8-313(1) are satisfied.
(3)	A security interest in a security is subject to the provisions of Article 9, but:
(a)	No filing is required to perfect the security interest; and
(b)	No written security agreement signed by the debtor is necessary to make the security interest enforceable, except as provided in paragraph (h), (i), or (j) of G.S. 25-8-313(1).  The secured party has the rights and duties provided under G.S. 25-9-207, to the extent they are applicable, whether or not the security is certificated, and, if certificated, whether or not it is in his possession.
(4)	Unless otherwise agreed, a security interest in a security is terminated by transfer to the debtor or a person designated by him pursuant to a provision of G.S. 25-8-313(1).  If a security is thus transferred, the security interest, if not terminated, becomes unperfected unless the security is certificated and is delivered to the debtor for the purpose of ultimate sale or exchange or presentation, collection, renewal, or registration of transfer.  In that case, the security interest becomes unperfected after 21 days unless, within that time, the security (or securities for which it has been exchanged) is transferred to the secured party or a person designated by him pursuant to a provision of G.S. 25-8-313(1).
"PART 4.
"Registration.
"§ 25-8-401.  Duty of issuer to register transfer, pledge, or release.
							(1)	If a certificated security in registered form is presented to the issuer with a request to register transfer, or an instruction is presented to the issuer with a request to register transfer, pledge, or release, the issuer shall register the transfer, pledge, or release as requested if:
(a)	The security is indorsed or the instruction was originated by the appropriate person or persons (G.S. 25-8-308);
(b)	Reasonable assurance is given that those indorsements or instructions are genuine and effective (G.S. 25-8-402);
(c)	The issuer has no duty as to adverse claims or has discharged the duty (G.S. 25-8-403);
(d)	Any applicable law relating to the collection of taxes has been complied with; and
(e)	The transfer, pledge, or release is in fact rightful or is to a bona fide purchaser.
(2)	If an issuer is under a duty to register a transfer, pledge, or release of a security, the issuer is also liable to the person presenting a certificated security or an instruction for registration or his principal for loss resulting from any unreasonable delay in registration or from failure or refusal to register the transfer, pledge, or release.
"§ 25-8-402.  Assurance that indorsements and instructions are effective.
							”	”			(1)	The issuer may require the following assurance that each necessary indorsement of a certificated security or each instruction (G.S. 25-8-308) is genuine and effective:
(a)	In all cases, a guarantee of the signature (G.S. 25-8-312 (1) or (2)) of the person indorsing a certificated security or originating an instruction including, in the case of an instruction, a warranty of the taxpayer identification number or, in the absence thereof, other reasonable assurance of identity;
(b)	If the indorsement is made or the instruction is originated by an agent, appropriate assurance of authority to sign;
(c)	If the indorsement is made or the instruction is originated by a fiduciary, appropriate evidence of appointment or incumbency;
(d)	If there is more than one fiduciary, reasonable assurance that all who are required to sign have done so; and
(e)	If the indorsement is made or the instruction is originated by a person not covered by any of the foregoing, assurance appropriate to the case corresponding as nearly as may be to the foregoing.
(2)	A ‘guarantee of the signature' in subsection (1) means a guarantee signed by or on behalf of a person reasonably believed by the issuer to be responsible.  The issuer may adopt standards with respect to responsibility if they are not manifestly unreasonable.
(3)	‘Appropriate evidence of appointment or incumbency' in subsection (1) means:
(a)	In the case of a fiduciary appointed or qualified by a court, a certificate issued by or under the direction or supervision of that court or an officer thereof and dated within 60 days before the date of presentation for transfer, pledge, or release; or
(b)	In any other case, a copy of a document showing the appointment or a certificate issued by or on behalf of a person reasonably believed by the issuer to be responsible or, in the absence of that document or certificate, other evidence reasonably deemed by the issuer to be appropriate.  The issuer may adopt standards with respect to the evidence if they are not manifestly unreasonable.  The issuer is not charged with notice of the contents of any document obtained pursuant to this paragraph except to the extent that the contents relate directly to the appointment or incumbency.
(4)	The issuer may elect to require reasonable assurance beyond that specified in this section, but if it does so and, for a purpose other than that specified in subsection (3)(b), both requires and obtains a copy of a will, trust, indenture, articles of co-partnership, bylaws, or other controlling instrument, it is charged with notice of all matters contained therein affecting the transfer, pledge, or release.
"§ 25-8-403.  Issuer's duty as to adverse claims.
(1)	An issuer to whom a certificated security is presented for registration is under a duty to inquire into adverse claims if
(a)	A written notification of an adverse claim is received at a time and in a manner which affords the issuer a reasonable opportunity to act on it prior to the issuance of a new, reissued or re-registered certificated security and the notification identifies the claimant, the registered owner and the issue of which the security is a part and provides an address for communications directed to the claimant; or
(b)	The issuer is charged with notice of an adverse claim from a controlling instrument which it has elected to require under G.S. 25-8-402(4).
(2)	The issuer may discharge any duty of inquiry by any reasonable  means, including notifying an adverse claimant by registered or certified mail at the address furnished by him or if there be no such address at his residence or regular place of business that the certificated security has been presented for registration of transfer by a named person, and that the transfer will be registered unless within thirty days from the date of mailing the notification, either
(a)	An appropriate restraining order, injunction or other process issues from a court of competent jurisdiction; or
(b)	There is filed with the issuer an indemnity bond sufficient in the issuer's judgment to protect the issuer and any transfer agent, registrar or other agent of the issuer involved, from any loss which it or they may suffer by complying with the adverse claim.
(3)	Unless an issuer is charged with notice of an adverse claim from a controlling instrument which it has elected to require under G.S. 25-8-402(4) or receives notification of an adverse claim under subsection (1) of this section, if a certificated security presented for registration is indorsed by the appropriate person or persons the issuer is under no duty to inquire into adverse claims. In particular
(a)	An issuer registering a security in the name of a person who is a fiduciary or who is described as a fiduciary is not bound to inquire into the existence, extent, or correct description of the fiduciary relationship and thereafter the issuer may assume without inquiry that the newly registered owner continues to be the fiduciary until the issuer receives written notice that the fiduciary is no longer acting as such with respect to the particular security;
(b)	An issuer registering transfer on an indorsement by a fiduciary is not bound to inquire whether the transfer is made in compliance with a controlling instrument or with the law of the state having jurisdiction of the fiduciary relationship, including any law requiring the fiduciary to obtain court approval of the transfer; and
(c)	The issuer is not charged with notice of the contents of any court record or file or other recorded or unrecorded document even though the document is in its possession and even though the transfer is made on the indorsement of a fiduciary to the fiduciary himself or to his nominee.
	(4)	An issuer is under no duty as to adverse claims with respect to an uncertificated security except:
(a)	Claims embodied in a restraining order, injunction, or other legal process served upon the issuer if the process was served at a time and in a manner affording the issuer a reasonable opportunity to act on it in accordance with the requirements of subsection (5);
(b)	Claims of which the issuer has received a written notification from the registered owner or the registered pledgee if the notification was received at a time and in a manner affording the issuer a reasonable opportunity to act on it in accordance with the requirements of subsection (5);
(c)	Claims (including restrictions on transfer not imposed by the issuer) to which the registration of transfer to the present registered owner was subject and were so noted in the initial transaction statement sent to him; and
(d)	Claims as to which an issuer is charged with notice from a controlling instrument it has elected to require under G.S. 25-8-402(4).
(5)	If the issuer of an uncertificated security is under a duty as to an adverse claim, he discharges that duty by:
(a)	Including a notation of the claim in any statements sent with respect to the security under G.S. 25-8-408(3), (6), and (7); and
(b)	Refusing to register the transfer or pledge of the security unless the nature of the claim does not preclude transfer or pledge subject thereto.
(6)	If the transfer or pledge of the security is registered subject to an adverse claim, a notation of the claim must be included in the initial transaction statement and all subsequent statements sent to the transferee and pledgee under G.S. 25-8-4.
(7)	Notwithstanding subsections (4) and (5), if an uncertificated security was subject to a registered pledge at the time the issuer first came under a duty as to a particular adverse claim, the issuer has no duty as to that claim if transfer of the security is requested by the registered pledgee or an appropriate person acting for the registered pledgee unless:
(a)	The claim was embodied in legal process which expressly provides otherwise;
(b)	The claim was asserted in a written notification from the registered pledgee;
(c)	The claim was one as to which the issuer was charged with notice from a controlling instrument it required under G.S. 25-8-402(4) in connection with the pledgee's request for transfer; or
(d)	The transfer requested is to the registered owner.
"§ 25-8-404. Liability and nonliability for registration.
(1)	Except as otherwise provided in any law relating to the collection of taxes, the issuer is not liable to the owner, pledgee, or any other person suffering loss as a result of the registration of a transfer, pledge, or release of a security if
(a)	There were on or with a certificated security the necessary indorsements or the issuer has received an instruction originated by an appropriate person (G.S. 25-8-308); and
(b)	The issuer had no duty to inquire into adverse claims or has discharged the duty (G.S. 25-8-403).
(2)	If an issuer has registered a transfer of a certificated security to a person not entitled to it the issuer on demand shall deliver a like security to the true owner unless
(a)	The registration was pursuant to subsection (1); 
(b)	The owner is precluded from asserting any claim for registering the transfer under G.S. 25-8-405(1); or
(c)	The delivery would result in overissue, in which case the issuer's liability is governed by G.S. 25-8-104.
(3)	If an issuer has improperly registered a transfer, pledge, or release of an uncertificated security, the issuer on demand from the injured party shall restore the records as to the injured party to the condition that would have obtained if the improper registration had not been made unless:
(a)	The registration was pursuant to subsection (1); or
(b)	The registration would result in overissue, in which case the issuer's liability is governed by G.S. 25-8-104.
"§ 25-8-405. Lost, destroyed and stolen certificated securities.
(1)	If a certificated security has been lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken and the owner fails to notify the issuer of that fact within a reasonable time after he has notice of it and the issuer registers a transfer of the security before receiving such a notification, the owner is precluded from asserting against the issuer any claim for registering the transfer under G.S. 25-8-404 or any claim to a new security under this section.
(2)	If the owner of a certificated security claims that the security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the issuer shall issue a new certificated security or, at the option of the issuer, an equivalent uncertificated security in place of the original security if the owner
(a)	So requests before the issuer has notice that the security has  been acquired by a bona fide purchaser; and
(b)	Files with the issuer a sufficient indemnity bond; and
(c)	Satisfies any other reasonable requirements imposed by the issuer.
(3)	If, after the issue of a new certificated or uncertificated security, a bona fide purchaser of the original certificated security presents it for registration of transfer, the issuer shall register the transfer unless registration would result in overissue, in which event the issuer's liability is governed by G.S. 25-8-104. In addition to any rights on the indemnity bond, the issuer may recover the new certificated security from the person to whom it was issued or any person taking under him except a bona fide purchaser or may cancel the uncertificated security unless a bona fide purchaser or any person taking under a bona fide purchaser is then the registered owner or registered pledgee thereof.
"§ 25-8-406. Duty of authenticating trustee, transfer agent or registrar.
(1)	If a person acts as authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar, or other agent for an issuer in the registration of transfers of its certificated securities or in the registration of transfers, pledges, and releases of its uncertificated securities, in the issue of new securities or in the cancellation of surrendered securities
(a)	He is under a duty to the issuer to exercise good faith and due diligence in performing his functions; and
(b)	With regard to the particular functions he performs, he has the same obligation to the holder or owner of a certificated security or to the owner or pledgee of an uncertificated security and has the same rights and privileges as the issuer has in regard to those functions.
(2)	Notice to an authenticating trustee, transfer agent, registrar or other such agent is notice to the issuer with respect to the functions performed by the agent. 
"§ 25-8-407.  Exchangeability of securities.
(1)	No issuer is subject to the requirements of this section unless it regularly maintains a system for issuing the class of securities involved under which both certificated and uncertificated securities are regularly issued to the category of owners, which includes the person in whose name the new security is to be registered.
(2)	Upon surrender of a certificated security with all necessary indorsements and presentation of a written request by the person surrendering the security, the issuer, if he has no duty as to adverse claims or has discharged the duty (G.S. 25-8-403), shall issue to the person or a person designated by him an equivalent uncertificated security subject to all liens, restrictions, and claims that were noted on the certificated security.
(3)	Upon receipt of a transfer instruction originated by an appropriate person who so requests, the issuer of an uncertificated security shall cancel the uncertificated security and issue an equivalent certificated security on which must be noted conspicuously any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has a duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security was subject.  The certificated security shall be registered in the name of and delivered to:
(a)	The registered owner, if the uncertificated security was not subject to a registered pledge; or
(b)	The registered pledgee, if the uncertificated security was subject to a registered pledge.
"§ 25-8-408.  Statements of uncertificated securities.
(1)	Within two business days after the transfer of an uncertificated security has been registered, the issuer shall send to the new registered owner and, if the security has been transferred subject to a registered pledge, to the registered pledgee a written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The number of shares or units transferred;
(c)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the new registered owner and, if the security has been transferred subject to a registered pledge, the name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered pledgee;
(d)	A notation of any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has a duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security is or may be subject at the time of registration or a statement that there are none of those liens, restrictions, or adverse claims; and
(e)	The date the transfer was registered.
(2)	Within two business days after the pledge of an uncertificated security has been registered, the issuer shall send to the registered owner and the registered pledgee a written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The number of shares or units pledged;
(c)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered owner and the registered pledgee;
(d)	A notation of any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security is or may be subject at the time of registration or a statement that there are none of those liens, restrictions, or adverse claims; and
(e)	The date the pledge was registered.
(3)	Within two business days after the release from pledge of an uncertificated security has been registered, the issuer shall send to the registered owner and the pledgee whose interest was released a written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The number of shares or units released from pledge;
(c)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered owner and the pledgee whose interest was released;
(d)	A notation of any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security is or may be subject at the time of registration or a statement that there are none of those liens, restrictions, or adverse claims; and
(e)	The date the release was registered.
(4)	An ‘initial transaction statement' is the statement sent to:
(a)	The new registered owner and, if applicable, to the registered pledgee pursuant to subsection (1);
(b)	The registered pledgee pursuant to subsection (2); or
(c)	The registered owner pursuant to subsection (3).
Each initial transaction statement shall be signed by or on behalf of the issuer and must be identified as ‘initial transaction statement'.
(5)	Within two business days after the transfer of an uncertificated security has been registered, the issuer shall send to the former registered owner and the former registered pledgee, if any, a written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The number of shares or units transferred;
(c)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the former registered owner and of any former registered pledgee; and
(d)	The date the transfer was registered.
(6)	At periodic intervals no less frequent than annually and at any time upon the reasonable written request of the registered owner, the issuer shall send to the registered owner of each uncertificated security a dated written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered owner;
(c)	The number of shares or units of the uncertificated security registered in the name of the registered owner on the date of the statement;
(d)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of any registered pledgee and the number of shares or units subject to the pledge; and
(e)	A notation of any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security is or may be subject at the time of registration or a statement that there are none of those liens, restrictions, or adverse claims.
(7)	At periodic intervals no less frequent than annually and at any time upon the reasonable written request of the registered pledgee, the issuer shall send to the registered pledgee of each uncertificated security a dated written statement containing:
(a)	A description of the issue of which the uncertificated security is a part;
(b)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered owner;
(c)	The name and address and any taxpayer identification number of the registered pledgee;
(d)	The number of shares or units subject to the pledge; and
(e)	A notation of any liens and restrictions of the issuer and any adverse claims (as to which the issuer has duty under G.S. 25-8-403(4)) to which the uncertificated security is or may be subject at the time of registration or a statement that there are none of those liens, restrictions, or adverse claims.
(8)	If the issuer sends the statements described in subsections (6) and (7) at periodic intervals no less frequent than quarterly, the issuer is not obliged to send additional statements upon request unless the owner or pledgee requesting them pays to the issuer the reasonable cost of furnishing them.
(9)	Each statement sent pursuant to this section must bear a conspicuous legend reading substantially as follows:  ‘This statement is merely a record of the rights of the addressee as of the time of its issuance.  Delivery of this statement, of itself, confers no rights on the recipient.  This statement is neither a negotiable instrument nor a security.'"
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective 60 days after the date of ratification.