{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-8-206","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 28:8-206","heading":"Completion or alteration of security certificate.","body":"(a)\nIf a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n(1)\nAny person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and\n(2)\nEven if the blanks are incorrectly filled in, the security certificate as completed is enforceable by a purchaser who took it for value and without notice of the incorrectness.\n\n(b)\nA complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.","path":["Title 28. Commercial Instruments and Transactions. [Enacted title]","Subtitle I. Uniform Commercial Code.","Article 8. Investment Securities.","Part II. Issue and Issuer."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/28:8-206","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"69df18a1e5456ded7a2943b092e514c7a74bd63813203680380065769f17cc72","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-8-205","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-28-8-207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}