Sec. 1. In this chapter and IC 30-2-6 , unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Assignment" includes any written stock power, bond power, bill of sale, deed, declaration of trust, or other instrument of transfer. (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 protected person, a beneficial owner of a security registered in the name of a nominee, or an owner under eighteen (18) years of age, 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 the claimant's behalf, and includes a claim that the transfer would be in breach of fiduciary duties. (3) "Corporation" means a private or public corporation, association, or trust issuing a security. (4) "Fiduciary" means an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, committee, conservator, curator, tutor, custodian, or nominee. (5) "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. (6) "Security" includes any share of stock, bond, debenture, note, or other security issued by a corporation which is registered as to ownership on the books of the corporation. (7) "Transfer" means a change on the books of a corporation in the registered ownership of a security. (8) "Transfer agent" means a person employed or authorized by a corporation to transfer securities issued by the corporation. Formerly: Acts 1961, c.124, s.1; Acts 1973, P.L.293, SEC.1. As amended by P.L.33-1989, SEC.91.
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