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(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

 
Sec. 11. 11 MRSA §4-207-A, sub-§(1), ¶(f) is enacted to read:

 
(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.

 
Sec. 12. 11 MRSA §4-207-A, sub-§(6) is enacted to read:

 
(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.

 
Sec. 13. 11 MRSA §4-207-B, sub-§(1), as enacted by PL 1993, c. 293, Pt.
B, §26, is amended to read:

 
(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:

 
(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;

 
(b) The draft has not been altered; and

 
(c) The warrantor has no knowledge that the signature of
the purported drawer of the draft is unauthorized.; and

 
(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.

 
Sec. 14. 11 MRSA §4-207-B, sub-§§(7) and (8) are enacted to read:

 
(7)__A demand draft is a check, as provided in section 3-1104,
subsection (6).

 
(8)__If the warranty in subsection (1), paragraph (d) is not


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