Colorado § 4-8-206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.
Full text of Colorado Colorado Revised Statutes § 4-8-206 — Completion or alteration of security certificate., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 4-8-206. Completion or alteration of security certificate.
(a) If a security certificate contains the signatures necessary to its issue or transfer but is incomplete in any other respect:
(1) Any person may complete it by filling in the blanks as authorized; and
(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.
(b) A complete security certificate that has been improperly altered, even if fraudulently, remains enforceable, but only according to its original terms.
Source: L. 96: Entire article R&RE, p. 218, § 2, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 4-8-206 as it existed prior to 1996.
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 4-8-206 ("Completion or alteration of security certificate.") is part of the Colorado Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Colorado. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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