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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="9-105" title_number="9" title_name="Secured Transactions" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A secured party has control of electronic chattel paper if a system employed for evidencing the transfer of interests in the chattel paper reliably establishes the secured party as the person to which the chattel paper was assigned.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A system satisfies subsection (a) if the record or records comprising the chattel paper are created, stored, and assigned in such a manner that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A single authoritative copy of the record or records exists which is unique, identifiable and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of this section, unalterable;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The authoritative copy identifies the secured party as the assignee of the record or records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the secured party 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 secured party;</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>
