{"data":{"id":"us-mt/30-8-216","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"30-8-216","heading":"Completion of alteration of security certificate.","body":"(1) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n(a) any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and\n(b) even 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(2) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.","path":["TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 8. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE INVESTMENT SECURITIES","Part 2. Issue and Issuer"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0300/chapter_0080/part_0020/section_0160/0300-0080-0020-0160.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:51:02Z","sha256":"113da3caa50f83ee0b24d48a64c0765348b7838666d6697806341ea2e761d553","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/30-8-215","next":"us-mt/30-8-217"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}