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    (810 ILCS 5/Art. 7 Pt. 1 heading)PART 1 GENERAL (Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑101)(from Ch. 26, par. 7‑101)
    Sec. 7‑101. Short title. This Article may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code‑Documents of Title.
(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑102)(from Ch. 26, par. 7‑102)
    Sec. 7‑102. Definitions and index of definitions.
    (a) In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires:
        (1) "Bailee" means a person that by a warehouse

receipt, bill of lading, or other document of 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 named in a bill of

lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery.

(4) "Consignor" means a person named in a bill of

lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment.

(5) "Delivery order" means a record that contains an

order to deliver goods directed to a warehouse, carrier, or other person that in the ordinary course of business issues warehouse receipts or bills of lading.

(6) "Good faith" means honesty in fact and the

observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing.

(7) "Goods" means all things that are treated as

movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation.

(8) "Issuer" means a bailee that issues a document of

title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. The term includes a person for which an agent or employee purports to act in issuing a document if the agent or employee has real or apparent authority to issue documents, even if the issuer did not receive any goods, the goods were misdescribed, or in any other respect the agent or employee violated the issuer's instructions.

(9) "Person entitled under the document" means the

holder, in the case of a negotiable document of title, or the person to which delivery of the goods is to be made by the terms of, or pursuant to instructions in a record under, a nonnegotiable document of title.

(10) "Record" means information that is inscribed on

a tangible medium or that is stored in 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 engaged in the

business of storing goods for hire. The owner of a self‑service storage facility as defined in the Self‑Service Storage Facility Act is not a warehouse for the purposes of this Article.

(b) Definitions in other Articles applying to this

Article and the Sections in which they appear are:

(1) "Contract for sale", Section 2‑106.         (2) "Lessee in the ordinary course of business",

Section 2A‑103.

(3) "Receipt" of goods, Section 2‑103.     (c) In addition, Article 1 contains general definitions

and principles of construction and interpretation applicable throughout this Article.

(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑103)(from Ch. 26, par. 7‑103)
    Sec. 7‑103. Relation of Article to treaty or statute.
    (a) This Article is 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) This Article does not modify or repeal any law prescribing the form or content of a document of title or the services or facilities to be afforded by a bailee, or otherwise regulating a bailee's business in respects not specifically treated in this Article. However, violation of such a law does not affect the status of a document of title that otherwise is within the definition of a document of title.
    (c) This Act modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (15 U.S.C. Section 7001, et seq.) but does 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) (Blank).
(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑104)(from Ch. 26, par. 7‑104)
    Sec. 7‑104. Negotiable and nonnegotiable document of title.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), 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 subsection (a) is nonnegotiable. A bill of lading that states that the goods are consigned to a named person is not made negotiable by a provision that the goods are to be delivered only against an order in a record signed by the same or another named person.
    (c) A document of title is nonnegotiable if, at the time it is issued, the document has a conspicuous legend, however expressed, that it is nonnegotiable.
(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑105)(from Ch. 26, par. 7‑105)
    Sec. 7‑105. Reissuance in alternative medium.
    (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 the electronic document.

(b) Upon issuance of a tangible document of title in

substitution for an electronic document of title in accordance with subsection (a):

(1) the electronic document ceases to have any effect

or validity; and

(2) the person that procured issuance of the

tangible document warrants to all subsequent persons entitled under the tangible document that the warrantor was a person entitled under the electronic document when the warrantor surrendered control of the electronic document to the issuer.

(c) Upon request of a person entitled under a tangible

document of title, the issuer of the tangible document may issue an electronic document of title as a substitute for the tangible document if:

(1) the person entitled under the tangible document

surrenders possession of the document to the issuer; and

(2) the electronic document when issued contains a

statement that it is issued in substitution for the tangible document.

(d) Upon issuance of an electronic document of title in

substitution for a tangible document of title in accordance with subsection (c):

(1) the tangible document ceases to have any effect

or validity; and

(2) the person that procured issuance of the

electronic document warrants to all subsequent persons entitled under the electronic document that the warrantor was a person entitled under the tangible document when the warrantor surrendered possession of the tangible document to the issuer.

(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)

    (810 ILCS 5/7‑106)
    Sec. 7‑106. Control of electronic document of title.
    (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 paragraphs (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.

(Source: P.A. 95‑895, eff. 1‑1‑09.)