Title 18
Fiduciaries

Chapter 11
Simplification of Fiduciary Security Transfers

R.I. Gen. Laws § 18-11-9

§ 18-11-9. Territorial applicability.

(a) The rights and duties of a corporation and its transfer agents in registering a security in the name of a fiduciary or in making a transfer of a security pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary are governed by the law of the jurisdiction under whose laws the corporation is organized.

(b) This chapter applies to the rights and duties of a person other than the corporation and its transfer agents with regard to acts and omissions in this state in connection with the acquisition, disposition, assignment, or transfer of a security by or to a fiduciary and of a person who guarantees in this state the signature of a fiduciary in connection with this transaction.

History of Section.
P.L. 1959, ch. 85, § 9.