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...ith 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 electronic records must be signed by electronic means, all of the following: (a) The type of electronic signature required; (b) The manner and format in which the electronic signature must be affixed to...

...ed 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 signatures by their respective bodies and agencies.

...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.

... an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (11) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or (b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic sound, symbol, or process. (12) "Shipper" means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. (13) "Warehouse" means a person...

... Commerce Act," 15 U.S.C. section 7001, et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act (15 U.S.C. section 7001(c)) or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act (15 U.S.C. section 7003(b)). (D) To the extent there is a conflict between Chapters 1306. and 1307. of the Revised Code, Chapter 1307. of the Revised Code governs.

...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...

...05] (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 statement that it is issued in substitution for ...

...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...

...rehouse. (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 even if issued by a person that is the owner of the goods and is not a warehouse.

...code of the receipt; (4) A statement whether the goods received will be delivered to the bearer, to a named person, or to a named person or its order; (5) The rate of storage and handling charges, unless goods are stored under a field warehousing arrangement, in which case a statement of that fact is sufficient on a nonnegotiable receipt; (6) A description of the goods or the packages containing them; (7) Th...

...icates that the issuer does not know whether all or part of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, such as a case in which the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity, or condition, or the receipt or description is qualified by "contents, condition, and quality unknown", "said to contain", or words of similar import, if the indication is true; or (B) The party or pu...

...ty [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 care. (B) Damages may be limited by a term in the warehouse r...

...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.

... believes that the goods are about to deteriorate or decline in value to less than the amount of its lien within the time prescribed in division (A) of this section and section 1307.210 of the Revised Code, the warehouse may specify in the notice given under division (A) of this section any reasonable shorter time for removal of the goods and, if the goods are not removed, may sell them at public sale held not ...

...d in common by the persons entitled thereto and the warehouse is severally liable to each owner for that owner's share. If, because of overissue, a mass of fungible goods is insufficient to meet all the receipts the warehouse has issued against it, the persons entitled include all holders to which overissued receipts have been duly negotiated.

...s [UCC 7-208] If a blank in a negotiable tangible warehouse receipt has been filled in without authority, a good-faith purchaser for value and without notice of the lack of authority may treat the insertion as authorized. Any other unauthorized alteration leaves any tangible or electronic warehouse receipt enforceable against the issuer according to its original tenor.

...sion for those charges and expenses, whether or not the other goods have been delivered by the warehouse. However, as against a person to which a negotiable warehouse receipt is duly negotiated, a warehouse's lien is limited to charges in an amount or at a rate specified in the warehouse receipt or, if no charges are so specified, to a reasonable charge for storage of the specific goods covered by the receipt ...

...o all other rights allowed by law to a creditor against a debtor. (H) If a lien is on goods stored by a merchant in the course of its business, the lien may be enforced in accordance with division (A) or (B) of this section. (I) A warehouse is liable for damages caused by failure to comply with the requirements for sale under this section and, in case of willful violation, is liable for conversion.

...dicates that the issuer does not know whether any part or all of the goods in fact were received or conform to the description, such as in a case in which the description is in terms of marks or labels or kind, quantity, or condition or the receipt or description is qualified by "contents or condition of contents of packages unknown ", "said to contain ", "shipper's weight, load and count," or words of similar ...

... of lading and similar documents of title [UCC 7-302] (A) The issuer of a through bill of lading, or other document of title embodying an undertaking to be performed in part by a person acting as its agent or by a performing carrier, is liable to any person entitled to recover on the bill or other document for any breach by the other person or the performing carrier of its obligation under the bill or other d...

...ge of instructions [UCC 7-303] (A) Unless the bill of lading otherwise provides, a carrier may deliver the goods to a person or destination other than that stated in the bill or may otherwise dispose of the goods, without liability for misdelivery, on instructions from: (1) the holder of a negotiable bill; (2) the consignor on a nonnegotiable bill, even if the consignee has given contrary instructions; (3) ...

...Tangible bills of lading in a set [UCC 7-304] (A) Except as customary in international transportation, a tangible bill of lading may not be issued in a set of parts. The issuer is liable for damages caused by violation of this division. (B) If a tangible bill of lading is lawfully issued in a set of parts, each of which contains an identification code and is expressed to be valid only if the goods have not bee...

...t. (B) Upon request of any person entitled as against the carrier to control the goods while in transit and on surrender of possession or control of any outstanding bill of lading or other receipt covering the goods, the issuer, subject to section 1307.105 of the Revised Code, may procure a substitute bill to be issued at any place designated in the request.

...ling in of a blank in a bill of lading leaves the bill enforceable according to its original tenor.