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Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 11, § 8-1206

Completion or alteration of security certificate

Known as the Uniform Commercial Code

The act spans §§ 2-101 to 9-1709 (548 sections).

PL 1997, c. 429, §B2 (NEW).

(1). If a security certificate 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 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.

(2). A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.

Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.