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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="5-118" title_number="5" title_name="Letters of Credit" subtitle_number="1">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An issuer or nominated person has a security interest in a document presented under a letter of credit to the extent that the issuer or nominated person honors or gives value for the presentation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>So long as and to the extent that an issuer or nominated person has not been reimbursed or has not otherwise recovered the value given with respect to a security interest in a document under subsection (a), the security interest continues and is subject to Title 9 of this article, but:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A security agreement is not necessary to make the security interest enforceable under § 9-203(b)(3);</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the document is presented in a medium other than a written or other tangible medium, the security interest is perfected; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If the document is presented in a written or other tangible medium and is not a certificated security, chattel paper, a document of title, an instrument, or a letter of credit, the security interest is perfected and has priority over a conflicting security interest in the document so long as the debtor does not have possession of the document.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
