§ 35-13-4. Systems of registration.
(a) Each issuer is authorized to establish and maintain a system of registration with
respect to each obligation which it issues. The system may be a system pursuant to
which (1) only certificated registered public obligations are issued; (2) only uncertificated
registered public obligations are issued; or (3) both certificated and uncertificated
registered public obligations are issued. The issuer may amend, discontinue, and reinstitute
any system, from time to time, subject to covenants.
(b) The system shall be established, amended, discontinued, or reinstituted for the issuer
and shall be maintained for the issuer as provided by the official or official body.
(c) The system shall be described in the registered public obligation or in the official
actions which provide for original issuance of the registered public obligation, and
in subsequent official actions providing for amendments and other matters from time
to time. The description may be by reference to a program of the issuer which is established
by the official or official body.
(d) The system shall define the method or methods by which transfer of the registered
public obligation shall be effective with respect to the issuer, and by which payment
of principal and any interest shall be made. The system may permit the issuance of
registered public obligations in any denomination to represent several registered
public obligations of smaller denominations. The system may also provide for the form
of any certificated registered public obligation or of any writing relating to an
uncertificated registered public obligation, for identifying numbers or other designations,
for a sufficient supply of certificates for subsequent transfers, for record and payment
dates, for varying denominations, for communications to holders or owners of obligations,
and for accounting, cancelled certificate destruction registration, and releases of
security interests and for other incidental matters. Unless the issuer otherwise provides,
the record date for interest payable on the first or fifteenth day of a month shall
be the fifteenth day or the last business day of the preceding month, respectively,
and for interest payable on other than the first or fifteenth day of a month shall
be the fifteenth calendar day before the interest payment date.
(e) Under a system pursuant to which both certificated and uncertificated registered public
obligations are issued, both types of registered public obligations may be regularly
issued, or one type may be regularly issued and the other type issued only under described
circumstances or to particular described categories of owners, and provision may be
made for registration and release of security interests in registered public obligations.
(f) The system may include covenants of the issuer as to amendments, discontinuances,
and reinstitutions of the system and the effect of these on the exemption of interest
from the income tax provided for by the code.
(g) Whenever an issuer shall issue an uncertificated registered public obligation, the
system of registration may provide that a true copy of the official actions of the
issuer relating to the uncertificated registered public obligation be maintained by
the issuer or by the person, if any, maintaining the system on behalf of the issuer,
so long as the uncertificated registered public obligation remains outstanding and
unpaid. A copy of the official actions, verified to be a copy by an authorized officer,
shall be admissible before any court of record, administrative body, or arbitration
panel without further authentication.
(h) Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a conversion from one of the forms of registered
public obligations provided for by this chapter to a form of obligation not provided
for by this chapter if interest on the obligation so converted will continue to be
exempt from the income tax provided for by the code.
(i) The rights provided by other laws with respect to obligations in forms not provided
for by this chapter shall, to the extent not inconsistent with this chapter, apply
with respect to registered public obligations issued in forms authorized by this chapter.