{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-7.106","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Business \u0026 Commerce Code § 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 Subdivisions (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.\nAmended by:\nActs 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 122 (S.B. 1593), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.","path":["BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE","TITLE 1. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE","CHAPTER 7. DOCUMENTS OF TITLE","SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.7.htm#7.106","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:56Z","sha256":"977e0bbd16bd4e30f8729dd3797671550d3e6b08b46adbb253a0412615a378a1","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-7.105","next":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-7.201"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}