554.3403  Unauthorized signature.

1.  Unless otherwise provided in this Article or Article 4, an unauthorized signature is ineffective except as the signature of the unauthorized signer in favor of a person who in good faith pays the instrument or takes it for value. An unauthorized signature may be ratified for all purposes of this Article.

2.  If the signature of more than one person is required to constitute the authorized signature of an organization, the signature of the organization is unauthorized if one of the required signatures is lacking.

3.  The civil or criminal liability of a person who makes an unauthorized signature is not affected by any provision of this Article which makes the unauthorized signature effective for the purposes of this Article.

Section History: Recent form

  94 Acts, ch 1167, §50, 121, 122

Internal References

  Referred to in § 554.4104

Footnotes

  Effective July 1, 1995; 94 Acts, ch 1167, §122; former section repealed effective July 1, 1995; 94 Acts, ch 1167, §121, 122; for law prior to July 1, 1995, see Code 1993; see also §554.3402


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