8208 - Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent. - Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 8208. Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent. (a) General rule.--A person signing a security certificate as authenticating trustee, registrar, transfer agent or the like warrants to a purchaser for value of the certificated security, if the purchaser is without notice of a particular defect, that: (1) the certificate is genuine; (2) the person's own participation in the issue of the security is within the person's capacity and within the scope of the authority received by the person from the issuer; and (3) the person has reasonable grounds to believe that the certificated security is in the form and within the amount the issuer is authorized to issue. (b) Limitation.--Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under subsection (a) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.