(a)  A person asserting a claim of beneficial interest adverse to the transfer of a security pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary may give the corporation or transfer agent written notice of the claim. The corporation or transfer agent is not put on notice unless the written notice identifies the claimant, the registered owner, and the issue of which the security is a part, provides an address for communications directed to the claimant, and is received before the transfer. Nothing in this chapter relieves the corporation or transfer agent of any liability for making or refusing to make the transfer after it is put on notice, unless it proceeds in the manner authorized in subsection (b) of this section.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-6

  • Assignment: includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust, or other instrument of transfer. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Claim of beneficial interest: includes a claim of any interest by a decedent's legatee, distributee, heir or creditor, a beneficiary under a trust, a ward, a beneficial owner of a security registered in the name of a nominee, or a minor owner of a security registered in the name of a custodian, or a claim of any similar interest, whether the claim is asserted by the claimant or by a fiduciary or by any other authorized person on his or her behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: means a private or public corporation, association, or trust issuing a security. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, or nominee. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Person: includes an individual, a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Security: includes any share of stock, bond, debenture, note, or other security issued by a corporation that is registered as to ownership on the books of the corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Transfer: means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2
  • Transfer agent: means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 18-11-2

(b)  As soon as practicable after the presentation of a security for transfer pursuant to an assignment by a fiduciary, a corporation or transfer agent which has received notice of a claim of beneficial interest adverse to the transfer may send notice of the presentation by registered or certified mail to the claimant at the address given by the claimant. If the corporation or transfer agent mails the notice, it shall withhold the transfer for thirty (30) days after the mailing and shall then make the transfer unless restrained by a court order.

History of Section.
P.L. 1959, ch. 85, § 6.