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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="18-203" title_number="18" title_name="Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts -- Criminal Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Bills of Lading">
  <text>A person may not negotiate or transfer for value a bill of lading:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>With intent to defraud;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>With knowledge that any of the goods which appear by the terms of the bill of lading to have been received for transportation by the carrier which issued the bill of lading are not in the possession or control of the carrier or a connecting carrier; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Without disclosing the lack of possession and control.</text>
  </level>
</section>
