{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-7-106","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 11-7-106","heading":"Control of electronic document of title.","body":"(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.\n(b) A system satisfies subsection (a) of this Code section, and a person is deemed to have control of an electronic document of title, if the document is created, stored, and assigned in a manner that:\n(1) A single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of this subsection, unalterable;\n(2) The authoritative copy identifies the person asserting control as:\n(A) The person to which the document was issued; or\n(B) If the authoritative copy indicates that the document has been transferred, the person to which the document was most recently transferred;\n(3) The authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the person asserting control or its designated custodian;\n(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;\n(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\n(6) Any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.","path":["TITLE 11 Commercial Code","Article 7 Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading, and Other Documents of Title","PART 1 General"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.11.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"b2a2df56a462a4832a7c20a42ef683a9e846bfd58647e0c1bfc30bc6570cc249","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-7-105","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-11-7-201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}