# Commercial Law (GCL)

## Title 7. Documents of Title

### Subtitle 1. In General

#### Section 7-106

(a) A person has control of an electronic document of title if a system employed for evidencing the transfer of interests in the electronic document reliably establishes that person as the person to which the electronic document was issued or transferred.

(b) A system satisfies subsection (a), and a person is deemed to have control of an electronic document of title, if the document is created, stored, and assigned in such a manner that:

  (1) A single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), unalterable;

  (2) The authoritative copy identifies the person asserting control as:

    (A) The person to which the document was issued; or

    (B) If the authoritative copy indicates that the document has been transferred, the person to which the document was most recently transferred;

  (3) The authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the person asserting control or its designated custodian;

  (4) Copies or amendments that add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made only with the consent of the person asserting control;

  (5) Each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the authoritative copy; and

  (6) Any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.

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Md. Code Ann., Com. Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)