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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1308.13

Completion or alteration of security certificate - UCC 8-206

Effective: January 1, 1998; Latest Legislation: House Bill 170 - 122nd General Assembly

(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 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.

Official source: Ohio Laws & Administrative Rules (Legislative Service Commission). Reproduced from public-domain Ohio statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.