Oregon Statutes 75.1130 – Successor of beneficiary
(1) A successor of a beneficiary may consent to amendments, sign and present documents and receive payment or other items of value in the name of the beneficiary without disclosing its status as a successor.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 75.1130
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Beneficiary: includes a person to whom drawing rights have been transferred under a transferable letter of credit. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Confirmer: means a nominated person who undertakes, at the request or with the consent of the issuer, to honor a presentation under a letter of credit issued by another. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Issuer: means a bank or other person that issues a letter of credit, but does not include an individual who makes an engagement for personal, family or household purposes. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Letter of credit: means a definite undertaking that satisfies the requirements of ORS § 75. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Nominated person: means a person whom the issuer:
(A) Designates or authorizes to pay, accept, negotiate or otherwise give value under a letter of credit; and
(B) Undertakes by agreement or custom and practice to reimburse. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Presentation: means delivery of a document to an issuer or nominated person for honor or giving of value under a letter of credit. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
- Successor of a beneficiary: means a person who succeeds to substantially all of the rights of a beneficiary by operation of law, including a corporation with or into which the beneficiary has been merged or consolidated, an administrator, executor, personal representative, trustee in bankruptcy, debtor in possession, liquidator and receiver. See Oregon Statutes 75.1020
(2) A successor of a beneficiary may consent to amendments, sign and present documents and receive payment or other items of value in its own name as the disclosed successor of the beneficiary. Except as provided in subsection (5) of this section, an issuer shall recognize a disclosed successor of a beneficiary as beneficiary in full substitution for its predecessor upon compliance with the requirements for recognition by the issuer of a transfer of drawing rights by operation of law under the standard practice referred to in ORS § 75.1080 (5) or, in the absence of such a practice, compliance with other reasonable procedures sufficient to protect the issuer.
(3) An issuer is not obliged to determine whether a purported successor is a successor of a beneficiary or whether the signature of a purported successor is genuine or authorized.
(4) Honor of a purported successor’s apparently complying presentation under subsection (1) or (2) of this section has the consequences specified in ORS § 75.1080 (9) even if the purported successor is not the successor of a beneficiary. Documents signed in the name of the beneficiary or of a disclosed successor by a person who is neither the beneficiary nor the successor of the beneficiary are forged documents for the purposes of ORS § 75.1090.
(5) An issuer whose rights of reimbursement are not covered by subsection (4) of this section or substantially similar law and any confirmer or nominated person may decline to recognize a presentation under subsection (2) of this section.
(6) A beneficiary whose name is changed after the issuance of a letter of credit has the same rights and obligations as a successor of a beneficiary under this section. [1961 c.726 § 75.1130; 1997 c.150 § 16]