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SC Code § 36-8-105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-105. Notice of adverse claim.

 (a) A person has notice of an adverse claim if:  (1) the person knows of the adverse claim;  (2) the person is aware of facts sufficient to indicate that there is a significant probability that the adverse claim exists and deliberately avoids information that would establish the existence of the adverse claim; or  (3) the person has a duty, imposed by statute or regulation, to investigate whether an adverse claim exists, and the investigation so required would establish the existence of the adverse claim.  (b) Having knowledge that a financial asset or interest therein is or has been transferred by a representative imposes no duty of inquiry into the rightfulness of a transaction and is not notice of an adverse claim. However, a person who knows that a representative has transferred a financial asset or interest therein in a transaction that is, or whose proceeds are being used, for the individual benefit of the representative or otherwise in breach of duty has notice of an adverse claim.  (c) An act or event that creates a right to immediate performance of the principal obligation represented by a security certificate or sets a date on or after which the certificate is to be presented or surrendered for redemption or exchange does not itself constitute notice of an adverse claim except in the case of a transfer more than:  (1) one year after a date set for presentment or surrender for redemption or exchange; or  (2) six months after a date set for payment of money against presentation or surrender of the certificate, if money was available for payment on that date.  (d) A purchaser of a certificated security has notice of an adverse claim if the security certificate:  (1) whether in bearer or registered form, has been indorsed 'for collection' or 'for surrender' or for some other purpose not involving transfer; or  (2) is in bearer form and has on it an unambiguous statement that it is the property of a person other than the transferor, but the mere writing of a name on the certificate is not such a statement.  (e) Filing of a financing statement under Chapter 9 is not notice of an adverse claim to a financial asset.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-105; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-106 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-106. Control.

 (a) A purchaser has "control" of a certificated security in bearer form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser.  (b) A purchaser has "control" of a certificated security in registered form if the certificated security is delivered to the purchaser, and:  (1) the certificate is indorsed to the purchaser or in blank by an effective indorsement; or  (2) the certificate is registered in the name of the purchaser, upon original issue or registration of transfer by the issuer.  (c) A purchaser has "control" of an uncertificated security if:  (1) the uncertificated security is delivered to the purchaser; or  (2) the issuer has agreed that it will comply with instructions originated by the purchaser without further consent by the registered owner.  (d) A purchaser has "control" of a security entitlement if:  (1) the purchaser becomes the entitlement holder;  (2) the securities intermediary has agreed that it will comply with entitlement orders originated by the purchaser without further consent by the entitlement holder; or  (3) another person has control of the security entitlement on behalf of the purchaser or, having previously acquired control of the security entitlement, acknowledges that it has control on behalf of the purchaser.  (e) If an interest in a security entitlement is granted by the entitlement holder to the entitlement holder's own securities intermediary, the securities intermediary has control.  (f) A purchaser who has satisfied the requirements of subsection (c) or (d) has control, even if the registered owner in the case of subsection (c) or the entitlement holder in the case of subsection (d) retains the right to make substitutions for the uncertificated security or security entitlement, to originate instructions or entitlement orders to the issuer or securities intermediary, or otherwise to deal with the uncertificated security or security entitlement.  (g) An issuer or a securities intermediary may not enter into an agreement of the kind described in subsection (c)(2) or (d)(2) without the consent of the registered owner or entitlement holder, but an issuer or a securities intermediary is not required to enter into such an agreement even though the registered owner or entitlement holder so directs. An issuer or securities intermediary that has entered into such an agreement is not required to confirm the existence of the agreement to another party unless requested to do so by the registered owner or entitlement holder.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-106; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-107 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-107. Whether indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective.

 (a) "Appropriate person" means:  (1) with respect to an indorsement, the person specified by a security certificate or by an effective special indorsement to be entitled to the security;  (2) with respect to an instruction, the registered owner of an uncertificated security;  (3) with respect to an entitlement order, the entitlement holder;  (4) if the person designated in item (1), (2), or (3) is deceased, the designated person's successor taking under other law or the designated person's personal representative acting for the estate of the decedent; or  (5) if the person designated in item (1), (2), or (3) lacks capacity, the designated person's guardian, conservator, or other similar representative who has power under other law to transfer the security or financial asset.  (b) An indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is effective if:  (1) it is made by the appropriate person;  (2) it is made by a person who has power under the law of agency to transfer the security or financial asset on behalf of the appropriate person, including, in the case of an instruction or entitlement order, a person who has control under Section 36-8-106(c)(2) or (d)(2); or  (3) the appropriate person has ratified it or is otherwise precluded from asserting its ineffectiveness.  (c) An indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order made by a representative is effective even if:  (1) the representative has failed to comply with a controlling instrument or with the law of the State having jurisdiction of the representative relationship, including any law requiring the representative to obtain court approval of the transaction; or  (2) the representative's action in making the indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order or using the proceeds of the transaction is otherwise a breach of duty.  (d) If a security is registered in the name of or specially indorsed to a person described as a representative, or if a securities account is maintained in the name of a person described as a representative, an indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order made by the person is effective even though the person is no longer serving in the described capacity.  (e) Effectiveness of an indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is determined as of the date the indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order is made, and an indorsement, instruction, or entitlement order does not become ineffective by reason of any later change of circumstances.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-107; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-109 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-109. Warranties in indirect holding.

 (a) A person who originates an entitlement order to a securities intermediary warrants to the securities intermediary that:  (1) the entitlement order is made by an appropriate person, or if the entitlement order is by an agent, the agent has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person; and  (2) there is no adverse claim to the security entitlement.  (b) A Person who delivers a security certificate to a securities intermediary for credit to a securities account or originates an instruction with respect to an uncertificated security directing that the uncertificated security be credited to a securities account makes to the securities intermediary the warranties specified in Section 36-8-108(a) or (b).  (c) If a securities intermediary delivers a security certificate to its entitlement holder or causes its entitlement holder to be registered as the owner of an uncertificated security, the securities intermediary makes to the entitlement holder the warranties specified in Section 36-8-108(a) or (b).  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-111 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-111. Clearing corporation rules.

 A rule adopted by a clearing corporation governing rights and obligations among the clearing corporation and its participants in the clearing corporation is effective even if the rule conflicts with this chapter and affects another party who does not consent to the rule.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-112 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-112. Creditor's legal process.

 (a) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security may be reached by a creditor only by actual seizure of the security certificate by the officer making the attachment or levy, except as otherwise provided in subsection (d). However, a certificated security for which the certificate has been surrendered to the issuer may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the issuer.  (b) The interest of a debtor in an uncertificated security may be reached by a creditor only by legal process upon the issuer at its chief executive office in the United States, except as otherwise provided in subsection (d).  (c) The interest of a debtor in a security entitlement may be reached by a creditor only by legal process upon the securities intermediary with whom the debtor's securities account is maintained, except as otherwise provided in subsection (d).  (d) The interest of a debtor in a certificated security for which the certificate is in the possession of a secured party, or in an uncertificated security registered in the name of a secured party, or a security entitlement maintained in the name of a secured party, may be reached by a creditor by legal process upon the secured party.  (e) A creditor whose debtor is the owner of a certificated security, uncertificated security, or security entitlement is entitled to aid from a court of competent jurisdiction, by injunction or otherwise, in reaching the certificated security, uncertificated security, or security entitlement or in satisfying the claim by means allowed at law or in equity in regard to property that cannot readily be reached by other legal process.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-113 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-113. Statute of frauds inapplicable.

 A contract or modification of a contract for the sale or purchase of a security is enforceable whether or not there is a writing signed or record authenticated by a party against whom enforcement is sought, even if the contract or modification is not capable of performance within one year of its making.  HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 42, Section 2; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-114 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-114. Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.

 The following rules apply in an action on a certificated security against the issuer:  (1) Unless specifically denied in the pleadings, each signature on a security certificate or in a necessary indorsement is admitted.  (2) If the effectiveness of a signature is put in issue, the burden of establishing effectiveness is on the party claiming under the signature, but the signature is presumed to be genuine or authorized.  (3) If signatures on a security certificate are admitted or established, production of the certificate entitles a holder to recover on it unless the defendant establishes a defense or a defect going to the validity of the security.  (4) If it is shown that a defense or defect exists, the plaintiff has the burden of establishing that the plaintiff or some person under whom the plaintiff claims is a person against whom the defense or defect cannot be asserted.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-115 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-115. Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.

 A securities intermediary that has transferred a financial asset pursuant to an effective entitlement order, or a broker or other agent or bailee that has dealt with a financial asset at the direction of its customer or principal, is not liable to a person having an adverse claim to the financial asset, unless the securities intermediary, or broker or other agent or bailee:  (1) took the action after it had been served with an injunction, restraining order, or other legal process enjoining it from doing so, issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, and had a reasonable opportunity to act on the injunction, restraining order, or other legal process; or  (2) acted in collusion with the wrongdoer in violating the rights of the adverse claimant; or  (3) in the case of a security certificate that has been stolen, acted with notice of the adverse claim.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-116 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-116. Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.

 A securities intermediary that receives a financial asset and establishes a security entitlement to the financial asset in favor of an entitlement holder is a purchaser for value of the financial asset. A securities intermediary that acquires a security entitlement to a financial asset from another securities intermediary acquires the security entitlement for value if the securities intermediary acquiring the security entitlement establishes a security entitlement to the financial asset in favor of an entitlement holder.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-201 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-201. Issuer.

 (a) With respect to an obligation on or a defense to a security, an "issuer" includes a person that:  (1) places or authorizes the placing of its name on a security certificate, other than as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, to evidence a share, participation, or other interest in its property or in an enterprise, or to evidence its duty to perform an obligation represented by the certificate;  (2) creates a share, participation, or other interest in its property or in an enterprise, or undertakes an obligation, that is an uncertificated security;  (3) directly or indirectly creates a fractional interest in its rights or property, if the fractional interest is represented by a security certificate; or  (4) becomes responsible for, or in place of, another person described as an issuer in this section.  (b) With respect to an obligation on or defense to a security, a guarantor is an issuer to the extent of its guaranty, whether or not its obligation is noted on a security certificate.  (c) With respect to a registration of a transfer, issuer means a person on whose behalf transfer books are maintained.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-201; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-203 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-203. Staleness as notice of defect or defense.

 After an act or event, other than a call that has been revoked, creating a right to immediate performance of the principal obligation represented by a certificated security or setting 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 the act or event:  (1) requires the payment of money, the delivery of a certificated security, the registration of transfer of an uncertificated security, or any of them on presentation or surrender of the security certificate, the money or security is available on the date set for payment or exchange, and the purchaser takes the security more than one year after that date; or  (2) is not covered by item (1) and the purchaser takes the security more than two years after the date set for surrender or presentation or the date on which performance became due.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-203; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-204 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-204. Effect of issuer ' s restriction on transfer.

 A restriction on transfer of a security imposed by the issuer, even if otherwise lawful, is ineffective against a person without knowledge of the restriction unless:  (1) the security is certificated and the restriction is noted conspicuously on the security certificate; or  (2) the security is uncertificated and the registered owner has been notified of the restriction.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-204; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-205 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-205. Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.

 An unauthorized signature placed on a security certificate before or in the course of issue is ineffective, but the signature is effective in favor of a purchaser for value of the certificated security if the purchaser is without notice of the lack of authority and the signing has been done by:  (1) an authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or other person entrusted by the issuer with the signing of the security certificate or of similar security certificates, or the immediate preparation for signing of any of them; or  (2) an employee of the issuer, or of any of the persons listed in item (1), entrusted with responsible handling of the security certificate.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-205; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-206 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.

 (a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:  (1) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and  (2) even if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.  (b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-206; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-207 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-207. Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.

 (a) Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificated security in registered form or of an instruction requesting registration of transfer of an uncertificated security, the issuer or indenture trustee may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to vote, receive notifications, and otherwise exercise all the rights and powers of an owner.  (b) This chapter does not affect the liability of the registered owner of a security for a call, assessment, or the like.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-207; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-208 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar, or transfer agent.

 (a) A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent, or the like, warrants to a purchaser for value of the certificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of a particular defect, that:  (1) the certificate is genuine;  (2) the person's own participation in the issue of the security is within the person's capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer; and  (3) the person has reasonable grounds to believe that the certificated security is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue.  (b) Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (a) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.8-208; 1966 (54) 2716; 1991 Act No. 161, Section 1; 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-209 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-209. Issuer's lien.

 A lien in favor of an issuer upon a certificated security is valid against a purchaser only if the right of the issuer to the lien is noted conspicuously on the security certificate.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.
SC Code § 36-8-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 36 - Commercial Code|Chapter 8 - Commercial Code - Investment Securities|Section 36-8-210. Overissue.

 (a) In this section, "overissue" means the issue of securities in excess of the amount the issuer has corporate power to issue, but an overissue does not occur if appropriate action has cured the overissue.  (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), the provisions of this chapter 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.  (c) If an identical security not constituting an overissue is reasonably available for purchase, a person entitled to issue or validation may compel the issuer to purchase the security and deliver it if certificated or register its transfer if uncertificated, against surrender of any security certificate the person holds.  (d) If a security is not reasonably available for purchase, a person entitled to issue or validation may recover from the issuer the price the person or the last purchaser for value paid for it with interest from the date of the person's demand.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 67, Section 5.