{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-7-106","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 36-7-106","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), 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:\n(1) a single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in items (4), (5), and (6), 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 36 - COMMERCIAL CODE","CHAPTER 7 Commercial Code—Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading and Other Documents of Title","Part 1 General"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t36c007.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:08:39Z","sha256":"de4aa85d1a7fd17a1ea409eb31c1ff51ff455c09543435b29127bab6a4e85ee4","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-7-105","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-36-7-201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}