Section 36-1-101. Short title.

SC Code § 36-1-101 (2019) (N/A)
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(1) This title shall be known and may be cited as the Uniform Commercial Code.

(2) This chapter may be cited as Uniform Commercial Code-General Provisions.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 10.1-101; 1966 (54) 2716; 2014 Act No. 213 (S.343), Section 1, eff October 1, 2014.

OFFICIAL COMMENT

Source: Former Section 1-101.

Changes from former law: Subsection (b) is new. It is added in order to make the structure of Article 1 parallel with that of the other articles of the Uniform Commercial Code.

1. Each other article of the Uniform Commercial Code (except Articles 10 and 11) may also be cited by its own short title. See Sections 2-101, 2A-101, 3-101, 4-101, 4A-101, 5-101, 6-101, 7-101, 8-101, and 9-101.

Editor's Note

"This act," referred to in this section, means Act No. 1065 of the 1966 Acts and Joint Resolutions, originally codified as Titles 10.1 to 10.10 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina 1962, and now codified as Title 36 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976.

2014 Act No. 213, Section 51, provides as follows:

"SECTION 51. This act becomes effective on October 1, 2014. It applies to transactions entered into and events occurring after that date."

Effect of Amendment

2014 Act No. 213, Section 1, rewrote the section.