| | | (e) The warrantor has no knowledge of any insolvency | | proceeding commenced with respect to the maker or acceptor | or, in the case of an unaccepted draft, the drawer.; and |
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| | | Sec. 11. 11 MRSA §4-207-A, sub-§(1), ¶(f) is enacted to read: |
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| | | (f)__If the item is a demand draft, creation of the item | | according to the terms on its face was authorized by the | | person identified as the drawer. |
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| | | Sec. 12. 11 MRSA §4-207-A, sub-§(6) is enacted to read: |
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| | | (6)__If the warranty in subsection (1), paragraph (f) is not | | given by a transferor or collecting bank under applicable | | conflict of laws rules, then the warranty is not given to that | | transferor when that transferor is a transferee nor to any prior | | collecting bank of that transferee. |
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| | | Sec. 13. 11 MRSA §4-207-B, sub-§(1), as enacted by PL 1993, c. 293, Pt. | | B, §26, is amended to read: |
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| | | (1) If an unaccepted draft is presented to the drawee for | | payment or acceptance and the drawee pays or accepts the draft, | | the person obtaining payment or acceptance, at the time of | | presentment, and a previous transferor of the draft, at the time | | of transfer, warrant to the drawee that pays or accepts the draft | | in good faith that: |
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| | | (a) The warrantor is, or was, at the time the warrantor | | transferred the draft, a person entitled to enforce the | | draft or authorized to obtain payment or acceptance of the | | draft on behalf of a person entitled to enforce the draft; |
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| | (b) The draft has not been altered; and |
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| | | (c) The warrantor has no knowledge that the signature of | the purported drawer of the draft is unauthorized.; and |
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| | | (d)__If the draft is a demand draft, creation of the demand | | draft according to the terms on its face was authorized by | | the person identified as the drawer. |
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| | | Sec. 14. 11 MRSA §4-207-B, sub-§§(7) and (8) are enacted to read: |
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| | | (7)__A demand draft is a check, as provided in section 3-1104, | | subsection (6). |
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| | | (8)__If the warranty in subsection (1), paragraph (d) is not |
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