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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 104.3403 (2026)

Unauthorized signature

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NRS 104.3403  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.

      (Added to NRS by 1965, 827; A 1993, 1279)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1986–1994 · leading case: Bradley v. Romeo, 716 P.2d 227 (Nev. 1986).
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Bradley v. Romeo, 716 P.2d 227 (Nev. 1986). “The contention that Romeo did not intend to be personally liable on the note can be dispensed with by examining NRS 104.3403 (UCC 3-403). That statute provides, in relevant part: 2.”
Murphy v. Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp., 787 P.2d 370 (Nev. 1990). “UCC section 3-403, adopted in Nevada and set forth at NRS 104.3403, provides in pertinent part: 2.”
Threlkel v. Shenanigan's, Inc., 881 P.2d 674 (Nev. 1994). “2 Threlkel cites the 1991 version of NRS 104.3403 for this proposition. Nevada has recently adopted a revised version of article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code, under which NRS 104.”
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