(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.

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Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 6A-8-206

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

History of Section.
P.L. 2000, ch. 182, § 5; P.L. 2000, ch. 420, § 5.