{"data":{"id":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-8-206","jurisdiction":"us-wv","citation":"W. Va. Code § 46-8-206","heading":"Completion or alteration of security certificate.","body":"(a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:\n(1) Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and\n(2) 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(b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.","path":["CHAPTER 46. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE.","ARTICLE 8. INVESTMENT SECURITIES."],"source_url":"https://code.wvlegislature.gov/46-8-206/","current_through":"as of 2026-08-03; contains at least the enactments of the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T00:29:53Z","sha256":"9767278509ce66bf0cade872571c437f81f4a28b7b59e063f5de59293b2b02d2","source_id":"us-wv","stale":true,"prev":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-8-205","next":"us-wv/w.-va.-code-46-8-207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}