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...In a proceeding, evidence of a record or signature may not be excluded solely because it is in electronic form.

...In an automated transaction, all of the following apply: (A) A contract may be formed by the interaction of electronic agents of the parties, even if no individual was aware of or reviewed the electronic agents' actions or the resulting terms and agreements. (B) A contract may be formed by the interaction of an electronic agent and an individual, acting on the individual's own behalf or for another person, includin...

...(A) Unless otherwise agreed between the sender and the recipient, an electronic record is sent when it satisfies all of the following: (1) The record is addressed properly or otherwise directed properly to an information processing system that the recipient has designated or uses for the purpose of receiving electronic records or information of the type sent, and from which the recipient is able to retrieve the elec...

...(A) As used in this section, "transferable record" means an electronic record that satisfies both of the following: (1) The transferable record would be a note under Chapter 1303. or a document under Chapter 1307. of the Revised Code, if the electronic record were in writing. (2) The issuer of the electronic record expressly has agreed that it is a transferable record. (B) A person has control of a transfera...

...(A) A provision of a nonelectronic contract involving a consumer and to which a state agency or a county office is not a party that authorizes the conducting of a transaction or any part of a transaction by electronic means is unenforceable against the consumer, unless the consumer separately signs the provision. (B) A consumer's agreement to conduct a transaction or a part of a transaction electronically shall not ...

...(A) This section and section 1306.18 of the Revised Code apply to the attribution of electronic records and electronic signatures among parties that are not state agencies. (B) For purposes of this section and section 1306.18 of the Revised Code, the commercial reasonableness of a security procedure is to be determined by a court. In making this determination, both of the following apply: (1) A security procedure e...

...(A) If there is a security procedure between the parties with respect to an electronic signature or electronic record, both of the following apply: (1) The effect of compliance with a security procedure established by a law or regulation is determined by that law or regulation. (2) In all other cases than those described in division (A)(1) of this section, if the parties agree to use or otherwise knowingly adopt a ...

...Sections 1306.17 and 1306.18 of the Revised Code do not apply to transactions to which a consumer is a party.

...(A) Subject to section 1306.11 of the Revised Code, each state agency shall determine if, and the extent to which, it will send and receive electronic records and electronic signatures to and from other persons and otherwise create, generate, communicate, store, process, use, and rely upon electronic records and electronic signatures. (B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, a state agency may waive a requ...

...(A) With regard to state agency use of electronic records or electronic signatures, the department of administrative services, in consultation with the state archivist, shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code setting forth all of the following: (1) The minimum requirements for the method of creation, maintenance, and security of electronic records and electronic signatures; (2) If el...

...(A) Nothing in sections 1306.01 to 1306.23 of the Revised Code shall be construed to require the general assembly, any legislative agency, the supreme court, the other courts of record in this state, or any judicial agency to use or permit the use of electronic records and electronic signatures. (B) The general assembly and the supreme court may adopt rules pertaining to the use of electronic records and electronic ...

...Records that would disclose or may lead to the disclosure of records or information that would jeopardize the state's continued use or security of any computer or telecommunications devices or services associated with electronic signatures, electronic records, or electronic transactions are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...Short title [UCC 7-101] (A) This chapter may be cited as "Uniform Commercial Code, documents of title." (B) This chapter uses the numbering system of the national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws. The digits to the right of the decimal point are sequential and not supplemental to any preceding Revised Code section.

...Definitions and index of definitions [UCC 7-102] (A) As used in sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of the title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. (2) "Carrier" means a person that issues a bill of lading. (3) "Consignee" means a person...

...Relation of Chapter 1307. of the Revised Code to treaty or statute [UCC 7-103] (A) Sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code are subject to any treaty or statute of the United States or regulatory statute of this state to the extent the treaty, statute, or regulatory statute is applicable. (B) Sections 1307.101 to 1307.603 of the Revised Code do not modify or repeal any law prescribing the form or con...

...Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title [UCC 7-104] (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a document of title is negotiable if by its terms the goods are to be delivered to bearer or to the order of a named person. (B) A document of title other than one described in division (A) of this section is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a...

...Reissuance in alternative medium [UCC 7-105] (A) Upon request of a person entitled under an electronic document of title, the issuer of the electronic document may issue a tangible document of title as a substitute for the electronic document if: (1) The person entitled under the electronic document surrenders control of the document to the issuer; and (2) The tangible document when issued contains a statemen...

...Control of electronic document of title [UCC 7-106] (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. (B) A system satisfies division (A) of this section, and a person is deemed to have control of an electr...

...Person that may issue a warehouse receipt; storage under bond [UCC 7-201] (A) A warehouse receipt may be issued by any warehouse. (B) If goods, including distilled spirits and agricultural commodities, are stored under a statute requiring a bond against withdrawal or a license for the issuance of receipts in the nature of warehouse receipts, a receipt issued for the goods is deemed to be a warehouse receipt e...

...Form of warehouse receipt; effect of omission [UCC 7-202] (A) A warehouse receipt need not be in any particular form. (B) Unless a warehouse receipt provides for each of the following, the warehouse is liable for damages caused to a person injured by its omission: (1) A statement of the location of the warehouse facility where the goods are stored; (2) The date of issue of the receipt; (3) The unique identi...

...Liability for nonreceipt or misdescription [UCC 7-203] A party to or purchaser for value in good faith of a document of title, other than a bill of lading, that relies upon the description of the goods in the document may recover from the issuer damages caused by the nonreceipt or misdescription of the goods, except to the extent that: (A) The document conspicuously indicates that the issuer does not know wh...

...Duty of care; contractual limitation of warehouse's liability [UCC 7-204] (A) A warehouse is liable for damages for loss of or injury to the goods caused by its failure to exercise care with regard to the goods that a reasonably careful person would exercise under similar circumstances. Unless otherwise agreed, the warehouse is not liable for damages that could not have been avoided by the exercise of that ca...

...Title under warehouse receipt defeated in certain cases [UCC 7-205] A buyer in ordinary course of business of fungible goods sold and delivered by a warehouse that is also in the business of buying and selling such goods takes the goods free of any claim under a warehouse receipt even if the receipt is negotiable and has been duly negotiated.

...Termination of storage at warehouse's option [UCC 7-206] (A) A warehouse, by giving notice to the person on whose account the goods are held and any other person known to claim an interest in the goods, may require payment of any charges and removal of the goods from the warehouse at the termination of the period of storage fixed by the document of title or, if a period is not fixed, within a stated period no...

...Goods must be kept separate; fungible goods [UCC 7-207] (A) Unless the warehouse receipt provides otherwise, a warehouse shall keep separate the goods covered by each receipt so as to permit at all times identification and delivery of those goods. However, different lots of fungible goods may be commingled. (B) If different lots of fungible goods are commingled, the goods are owned in common by the persons e...