Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 7.106 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT OF TITLE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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 Subsection (a), and a person is deemed to have control of an electronic document of title, if the document is created, stored, and assigned in such a manner that:
(1) a single authoritative copy of the document exists which is unique, identifiable, and, except as otherwise provided in Subdivisions (4), (5), and (6), unalterable;
(2) the authoritative copy identifies the person asserting control as:
(A) the person to which the document was issued; or
(B) if the authoritative copy indicates that the document has been transferred, the person to which the document was most recently transferred;
(3) the authoritative copy is communicated to and maintained by the person asserting control or its designated custodian;
(4) copies or amendments that add or change an identified assignee of the authoritative copy can be made only with the consent of the person asserting control;
(5) each copy of the authoritative copy and any copy of a copy is readily identifiable as a copy that is not the authoritative copy; and
(6) any amendment of the authoritative copy is readily identifiable as authorized or unauthorized.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by:
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 122 (S.B. 1593), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.7.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
Cited by 7 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 7.106. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Business & Commerce Code
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 2.103DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 7.106
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 4.104DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 7.106
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.102DEFINITIONS AND INDEX OF DEFINITIONS.Printed as Section 7.106
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.203ATTACHMENT AND ENFORCEABILITY OF SECURITY INTEREST; PROCEEDS; SUPPORTING OBLIGATIONS; FORMAL REQUISITES.Printed as Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.106, or 9.107
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.207RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF SECURED PARTY HAVING POSSESSION OR CONTROL OF COLLATERAL.Printed as Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.106, or 9.107
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.314PERFECTION BY CONTROL.Printed as Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.106, 9.107, or 9.1071 | Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.107, or 9.1071
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 9.601RIGHTS AFTER DEFAULT; JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT; CONSIGNOR OR BUYER OF ACCOUNTS, CHATTEL PAPER, PAYMENT INTANGIBLES, OR PROMISSORY NOTES.Printed as Section 7.106, 9.104, 9.105, 9.106, or 9.107
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