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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65945</law_id><section_number>8.8A-210</section_number><catch_line>Overissue</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.8A-102</reference><reference>8.8A-405</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.8A">Commercial Code &#x2014; Investment Securities</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Issue and Issuer</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="a"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> In this section, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">overissue</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">issue</span> of securities in excess of the amount the issuer has corporate power to <span class="dictionary">issue</span>, but an <span class="dictionary">overissue</span> does not occur if appropriate action has cured the <span class="dictionary">overissue</span>. <a id="paragraph-239637" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-210/#a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="b"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d), the provisions of this title which validate a security or compel its <span class="dictionary">issue</span> or reissue do not apply to the extent that validation, <span class="dictionary">issue</span>, or reissue would result in <span class="dictionary">overissue</span>. <a id="paragraph-239638" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-210/#b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="c"><p><span class="prefix-number">c.</span> If an identical security not constituting an <span class="dictionary">overissue</span> is reasonably available for purchase, a person entitled to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> or validation may compel the issuer to purchase the security and deliver it if certificated or register its transfer if uncertificated, against surrender of any security certificate the person holds. <a id="paragraph-239639" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-210/#c"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="d"><p><span class="prefix-number">d.</span> If a security is not reasonably available for purchase, a person entitled to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> or validation may recover from the issuer the price the person or the last purchaser for value paid for it with interest from the date of the person&#x2019;s demand. <a id="paragraph-239640" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.8A-210/#d"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1996, c. 216.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
