Georgia § 11-8-406 - Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
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§ 11-8-406. Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate.
If a security certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or wrongfully taken, and the owner fails to notify the issuer of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of it and the issuer registers a transfer of the security before receiving notification, the owner may not assert against the issuer a claim for registering the transfer under Code Section 11-8-404 or a claim to a new security certificate under Code Section 11-8-405. (Code 1981, § 11-8-406 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1323, § 1.)
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