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2002 Florida Code
TITLE XXXIX COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 677 UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE: DOCUMENTS OF TITLE  
PART IV WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS AND BILLS OF LADING: GENERAL OBLIGATIONS (ss. 677.401-677.404)
677.401   Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.

677.401  Irregularities in issue of receipt or bill or conduct of issuer.--The obligations imposed by this chapter on an issuer apply to a document of title regardless of the fact that:

(1)  The document may not comply with the requirements of this chapter or of any other law or regulation regarding its issue, form or content; or

(2)  The issuer may have violated laws regulating the conduct of his or her business; or

(3)  The goods covered by the document were owned by the bailee at the time the document was issued; or

(4)  The person issuing the document does not come within the definition of warehouseman if it purports to be a warehouse receipt.

History.--s. 1, ch. 65-254; s. 634, ch. 97-102.

Note.--s. 7-401, U.C.C.; supersedes s. 678.20.

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