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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="7-106" title_number="7" title_name="Documents of Title" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="In General">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), unalterable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The authoritative copy identifies the person asserting control as:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>The person to which the document was issued; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>If the authoritative copy indicates that the document has been transferred, the person to which the document was most recently transferred;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the person asserting control or its designated custodian;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>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</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
