19 Pa. Code § 13.8 - Execution
(a) Except as
otherwise required by statute, a submittal filed by a corporation or other
association may be subscribed by an authorized officer of the corporation or
other association. The corporate or other association seal may be affixed and
attested but the affixation or attestation of the corporate or other
association seal is not necessary for the execution of a filing in the
Department under the code or under 54 Pa.C.S. (relating to names).
(b) Signatures shall be in black or blue
ink.
(c) The Department will not
examine a document to determine whether the document has been executed by an
authorized person or by sufficient authorized persons or otherwise is duly
executed.
(d) A document shall be
deemed executed if it contains a facsimile signature if the operative portions
of the document meet applicable physical characteristic requirements prescribed
under this chapter.
(e) Section
135(b) of the code (relating to requirements to be met by filed documents)
provides that a person, other than an incorporator or officer of a corporation,
as such, may sign a document by an attorney-in-fact or fiduciary. It is not
necessary to present to or file in the Department the original or a copy of a
document evidencing the authority of an attorney-in-fact or fiduciary. See
18 Pa.C.S. §§
4904 and
4911 (relating to unsworn
falsification to authorities; and tampering with public records or
information).
(f) See §
13.9(a) (relating
to number of copies) as to optional submission of the original
document.
(g) Subsection (a)
supplements and partially supersedes 1 Pa. Code §33.11 (relating to
execution).
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