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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 11 - Commercial Code » Article 8 - Investment Securities » Part 2 - Issue and Issuer » § 11-8-206. Completion or Alteration of Security Certificate
  1. 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.
  2. A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.

History. Code 1981, § 11-8-206 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.