2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 55: Uniform Commercial Code
Article 8: Investment Securities, 55-8-101 through 55-8-511
Section 55-8-206: Completion or alteration of security certificate.


NM Stat § 55-8-206 (1996 through 1st Sess 50th Legis) What's This?

55-8-206. 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.

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