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NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-103 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-103 - Relation of Article to Treaty or Statute.

    382-A:7-103 Relation of Article to Treaty or Statute. –||(a) This article is subject to any treaty or statute of the United States or regulatory statute of this state to the extent the treaty, statute, or regulatory statute is applicable.||(b) This article does not modify or repeal any law prescribing the form or content of a document of title or the services or facilities to be afforded by a bailee, or otherwise regulating a bailee's business in respects not specifically treated in this article. However, violation of such a law does not affect the status of a document of title that otherwise is within the definition of a document of title.||(c) This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. section 7001, et. seq. but does not modify, limit, or supersede 15 U.S.C. section 7001(c) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in 15 U.S.C. section 7003(b).||(d) To the extent there is a conflict between RSA 294-E and this article, this article governs.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-104 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-104 - Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Document of Title.

    382-A:7-104 Negotiable and Nonnegotiable Document of Title. –||(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person.||(b) A document of title other than one described in subsection (a) is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.||(c) A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-105 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-105 - Reissuance in Alternative Medium.

    382-A:7-105 Reissuance in Alternative Medium. –||(a) Upon request of a person entitled under an electronic document of title, the issuer of the electronic document may issue a tangible document of title as a substitute for the electronic document if:||(1) the person entitled under the electronic document surrenders control of the document to the issuer; and||(2) the tangible document when issued contains a statement that it is issued in substitution for the electronic document.||(b) Upon issuance of a tangible document of title in substitution for an electronic document of title in accordance with subsection (a):||(1) the electronic document ceases to have any effect or validity; and||(2) the person that procured issuance of the tangible document warrants to all subsequent persons entitled under the tangible document that the warrantor was a person entitled under the electronic document when the warrantor surrendered control of the electronic document to the issuer.||(c) Upon request of a person entitled under a tangible document of title, the issuer of the tangible document may issue an electronic document of title as a substitute for the tangible document if:||(1) the person entitled under the tangible document surrenders possession of the document to the issuer; and||(2) the electronic document when issued contains a statement that it is issued in substitution for the tangible document.||(d) Upon issuance of an electronic document of title in substitution for a tangible document of title in accordance with subsection (c):||(1) the tangible document ceases to have any effect or validity; and||(2) the person that procured issuance of the electronic document warrants to all subsequent persons entitled under the electronic document that the warrantor was a person entitled under the tangible document when the warrantor surrendered possession of the tangible document to the issuer.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-106 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-106 - Control of Electronic Document of Title.

    382-A:7-106 Control of Electronic Document of Title. –||(a) A person has control of an electronic document of title if a system employed for evidencing the transfer of interests in the electronic document reliably establishes that person as the person to which the electronic document was issued or transferred.||(b) A system satisfies subsection (a), and a person is deemed to have control of an electronic document of title, if the document is created, stored, and assigned in such a manner that:||(1) a single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), unalterable;||(2) the authoritative copy identifies the person asserting control as:||(A) the person to which the document was issued; or||(B) if the authoritative copy indicates that the document has been transferred, the person to which the document was most recently transferred;||(3) the authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the person asserting control or its designated custodian;||(4) copies or amendments that add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made only with the consent of the person asserting control;||(5) each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the authoritative copy; and||(6) any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-201 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-201 - Person That May Issue a Warehouse Receipt; Storage Under Bond.

    382-A:7-201 Person That May Issue a Warehouse Receipt;  Storage Under Bond. –||(a) A warehouse receipt may be issued by any warehouse.||(b) If goods, including distilled spirits and agricultural commodities, are stored under a statute requiring a bond against withdrawal or a license for the issuance of receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, a receipt issued for the goods is deemed to be a warehouse receipt even if issued by a person that is the owner of the goods and is not a warehouse.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-202 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-202 - Form of Warehouse Receipt; Effect of Omission.

    382-A:7-202 Form of Warehouse Receipt;  Effect of Omission. –||(a) A warehouse receipt need not be in any particular form.||(b) Unless a warehouse receipt provides for each of the following, the warehouse is liable for damages caused to a person injured by its omission:||(1) a statement of the location of the warehouse facility where the goods are stored;||(2) the date of issue of the receipt;||(3) the unique identification code of the receipt;||(4) a statement whether the goods received will be delivered to the bearer, to a named person, or to a named person or its order;||(5) the rate of storage and handling charges, unless goods are stored under a field warehousing arrangement, in which case a statement of that fact is sufficient on a nonnegotiable receipt;||(6) a description of the goods or the packages containing them;||(7) the signature of the warehouse or its agent;||(8) if the receipt is issued for goods that the warehouse owns, either solely, jointly, or in common with others, a statement of the fact of that ownership; and||(9) a statement of the amount of advances made and of liabilities incurred for which the warehouse claims a lien or security interest, unless the precise amount of advances made or liabilities incurred, at the time of the issue of the receipt, is unknown to the warehouse or to its agent that issued the receipt, in which case a statement of the fact that advances have been made or liabilities incurred and the purpose of the advances or liabilities is sufficient.||(c) A warehouse may insert in its receipt any terms that are not contrary to this chapter and do not impair its obligation of delivery under Section 7-403 or its duty of care under Section 7-204. Any contrary provision is ineffective.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-203 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-203 - Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription.

    382-A:7-203 Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription. –||A party to or purchaser for value in good faith of a document of title, other than a bill of lading, that relies upon the description of the goods in the document may recover from the issuer damages caused by the nonreceipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that:||(1) the document conspicuously indicates that the issuer does not know whether all or part of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, such as a case in which the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity, or condition, or the receipt or description is qualified by "contents, condition, and quality unknown," "said to contain," or words of similar import, if the indication is true; or||(2) the party or purchaser otherwise has notice of the nonreceipt or misdescription.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-204 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-204 - Duty of Care; Contractual Limitation of Warehouse's Liability.

    382-A:7-204 Duty of Care;  Contractual Limitation of Warehouse's Liability. –||(a) A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise of that care.||(b) Damages may be limited by a term in the warehouse receipt or storage agreement limiting the amount of liability in case of loss or damage beyond which the warehouse is not liable. Such a limitation is not effective with respect to the warehouse's liability for conversion to its own use. On request of the bailor in a record at the time of signing the storage agreement or within a reasonable time after receipt of the warehouse receipt, the warehouse's liability may be increased on part or all of the goods covered by the storage agreement or the warehouse receipt. In this event, increased rates may be charged based on an increased valuation of the goods.||(c) Reasonable provisions as to the time and manner of presenting claims and commencing actions based on the bailment may be included in the warehouse receipt or storage agreement.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-205 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-205 - Title Under Warehouse Receipt Defeated in Certain Cases.

    382-A:7-205 Title Under Warehouse Receipt Defeated in Certain Cases. –||A buyer in ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouse that is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes the goods free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even if the receipt is negotiable and has been duly negotiated.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-206 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-206 - Termination of Storage at Warehouse's Option.

    382-A:7-206 Termination of Storage at Warehouse's Option. –||(a) A warehouse, by giving notice to the person on whose account the goods are held and any other person known to claim an interest in the goods, may require payment of any charges and removal of the goods from the warehouse at the termination of the period of storage fixed by the document of title or, if a period is not fixed, within a stated period not less than 30 days after the warehouse gives notice. If the goods are not removed before the date specified in the notice, the warehouse may sell them pursuant to Section 7-210.||(b) If a warehouse in good faith believes that goods are about to deteriorate or decline in value to less than the amount of its lien within the time provided in subsection (a) and Section 7-210, the warehouse may specify in the notice given under subsection (a) any reasonable shorter time for removal of the goods and, if the goods are not removed, may sell them at public sale held not less than one week after a single advertisement or posting.||(c) If, as a result of a quality or condition of the goods of which the warehouse did not have notice at the time of deposit, the goods are a hazard to other property, the warehouse facilities, or other persons, the warehouse may sell the goods at public or private sale without advertisement or posting on reasonable notification to all persons known to claim an interest in the goods. If the warehouse, after a reasonable effort, is unable to sell the goods, it may dispose of them in any lawful manner and does not incur liability by reason of that disposition.||(d) A warehouse shall deliver the goods to any person entitled to them under this article upon due demand made at any time before sale or other disposition under this section.||(e) A warehouse may satisfy its lien from the proceeds of any sale or disposition under this section but shall hold the balance for delivery on the demand of any person to which the warehouse would have been bound to deliver the goods.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-207 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-207 - Goods Shall be Kept Separate; Fungible Goods.

    382-A:7-207 Goods Shall be Kept Separate;  Fungible Goods. –||(a) Unless the warehouse receipt provides otherwise, a warehouse shall keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times identification and delivery of those goods. However, different lots of fungible goods may be commingled.||(b) If different lots of fungible goods are commingled, the goods are owned in common by the persons entitled thereto and the warehouse is severally liable to each owner for that owner's share. If, because of overissue, a mass of fungible goods is insufficient to meet all the receipts the warehouse has issued against it, the persons entitled include all holders to which overissued receipts have been duly negotiated.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-208 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-208 - Altered Warehouse Receipts.

    382-A:7-208 Altered Warehouse Receipts. –||If a blank in a negotiable tangible warehouse receipt has been filled in without authority, a good-faith purchaser for value and without notice of the lack of authority may treat the insertion as authorized. Any other unauthorized alteration leaves any tangible or electronic warehouse receipt enforceable against the issuer according to its original tenor.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-301 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-301 - Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription; "Said to Contain"; "Shipper's Weight, Load, and Count"; Improper Handling.

    382-A:7-301 Liability for Nonreceipt or Misdescription;  "Said to Contain";  "Shipper's Weight, Load, and Count";  Improper Handling. –||(a) A consignee of a nonnegotiable bill of lading which has given value in good faith, or a holder to which a negotiable bill has been duly negotiated, relying upon the description of the goods in the bill or upon the date shown in the bill, may recover from the issuer damages caused by the misdating of the bill or the nonreceipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that the bill indicates that the issuer does not know whether any part or all of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, such as in a case in which the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity, or condition or the receipt or description is qualified by "contents or condition of contents of packages unknown," "said to contain," "shipper's weight, load, and count," or words of similar import, if that indication is true.||(b) If goods are loaded by the issuer of a bill of lading;||(1) the issuer shall count the packages of goods if shipped in packages and ascertain the kind and quantity if shipped in bulk; and||(2) words such as "shipper's weight, load, and count," or words of similar import indicating that the description was made by the shipper are ineffective except as to goods concealed in packages.||(c) If bulk goods are loaded by a shipper that makes available to the issuer of a bill of lading adequate facilities for weighing those goods, the issuer shall ascertain the kind and quantity within a reasonable time after receiving the shipper's request in a record to do so. In that case, "shipper's weight" or words of similar import are ineffective.||(d) The issuer of a bill of lading, by including in the bill the words "shipper's weight, load, and count," or words of similar import, may indicate that the goods were loaded by the shipper, and, if that statement is true, the issuer is not liable for damages caused by the improper loading. However, omission of such words does not imply liability for damages caused by improper loading.||(e) A shipper guarantees to an issuer the accuracy at the time of shipment of the description, marks, labels, number, kind, quantity, condition, and weight, as furnished by the shipper, and the shipper shall indemnify the issuer against damage caused by inaccuracies in those particulars. This right of indemnity does not limit the issuer's responsibility or liability under the contract of carriage to any person other than the shipper.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-302 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-302 - Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title.

    382-A:7-302 Through Bills of Lading and Similar Documents of Title. –||(a) The issuer of a through bill of lading, or other document of title embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by a person acting as its agent or by a performing carrier, is liable to any person entitled to recover on the bill or other document for any breach by the other person or the performing carrier of its obligation under the bill or other document. However, to the extent that the bill or other document covers an undertaking to be performed overseas or in territory not contiguous to the continental United States or an undertaking including matters other than transportation, this liability for breach by the other person or the performing carrier may be varied by agreement of the parties.||(b) If goods covered by a through bill of lading or other document of title embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by a person other than the issuer are received by that person, the person is subject, with respect to its own performance while the goods are in its possession, to the obligation of the issuer. The person's obligation is discharged by delivery of the goods to another person pursuant to the bill or other document and does not include liability for breach by any other person or by the issuer.||(c) The issuer of a through bill of lading or other document of title described in subsection (a) is entitled to recover from the performing carrier, or other person in possession of the goods when the breach of the obligation under the bill or other document occurred:||(1) the amount it may be required to pay to any person entitled to recover on the bill or other document for the breach, as may be evidenced by any receipt, judgment, or transcript of judgment; and||(2) the amount of any expense reasonably incurred by the issuer in defending any action commenced by any person entitled to recover on the bill or other document for the breach.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-303 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-303 - Diversion; Reconsignment; Change of Instructions.

    382-A:7-303 Diversion;  Reconsignment;  Change of Instructions. –||(a) Unless the bill of lading otherwise provides, a carrier may deliver the goods to a person or destination other than that stated in the bill or may otherwise dispose of the goods, without liability for misdelivery, on instructions from:||(1) the holder of a negotiable bill;||(2) the consignor on a nonnegotiable bill, even if the consignee has given contrary instructions;||(3) the consignee on a nonnegotiable bill in the absence of contrary instructions from the consignor, if the goods have arrived at the billed destination or if the consignee is in possession of the tangible bill or in control of the electronic bill; or||(4) the consignee on a nonnegotiable bill, if the consignee is entitled as against the consignor to dispose of the goods.||(b) Unless instructions described in subsection (a) are included in a negotiable bill of lading, a person to which the bill is duly negotiated may hold the bailee according to the original terms.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 382-A:7-304 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXXIV-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Title 382-A - Uniform Commercial Code|Section 382-A:7-304 - Tangible Bills of Lading in a Set.

    382-A:7-304 Tangible Bills of Lading in a Set. –||(a) Except as customary in international transportation, a tangible bill of lading may not be issued in a set of parts. The issuer is liable for damages caused by violation of this subsection.||(b) If a tangible bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts, each of which contains an identification code and is expressed to be valid only if the goods have not been delivered against any other part, the whole of the parts constitutes one bill.||(c) If a tangible negotiable bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts and different parts are negotiated to different persons, the title of the holder to which the first due negotiation is made prevails as to both the document of title and the goods even if any later holder may have received the goods from the carrier in good faith and discharged the carrier's obligation by surrendering its part.||(d) A person that negotiates or transfers a single part of a tangible bill of lading issued in a set is liable to holders of that part as if it were the whole set.||(e) The bailee shall deliver in accordance with Part 4 against the first presented part of a tangible bill of lading lawfully issued in a set. Delivery in this manner discharges the bailee's obligation on the whole bill.|||Source. 2006, 169:17, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|