(1) 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:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 70A-8-208

  • Certificated security: means a security that is represented by a certificate. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
  • Person: means :
         (24)(a) an individual;
         (24)(b) an association;
         (24)(c) an institution;
         (24)(d) a corporation;
         (24)(e) a company;
         (24)(f) a trust;
         (24)(g) a limited liability company;
         (24)(h) a partnership;
         (24)(i) a political subdivision;
         (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
         (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Security: except as otherwise provided in Section 70A-8-102, means an obligation of an issuer or a share, participation, or other interest in an issuer or in property or an enterprise of an issuer that:
              (1)(p)(i) is represented by a security certificate in bearer or registered form, or the transfer of which may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer;
              (1)(p)(ii) is one of a class or series or by its terms is divisible into a class or series of shares, participations, interests, or obligations; and
              (1)(p)(iii)
                   (1)(p)(iii)(A) is, or is of a type, dealt in or traded on securities exchanges or securities markets; or
                   (1)(p)(iii)(B) is a medium for investment and by its terms expressly provides that it is a security governed by this chapter. See Utah Code 70A-8-101
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
     (1)(a) the certificate is genuine;
     (1)(b) 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
     (1)(c) 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.
(2) Unless otherwise agreed, a person signing under Subsection (1) does not assume responsibility for the validity of the security in other respects.