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Pennsylvania · Through 2025-12-01 (Statute Update stamp, 13 Pa.C.S.)

13 Pa.C.S. § 3109: Payable to bearer or to order.

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  1. Title 13 - COMMERCIAL CODE
  2. CHAPTER 31 GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS

(a) Payable to bearer.--A promise or order is payable to bearer if it:

(1) states that it is payable to bearer or to the order of bearer or otherwise indicates that the person in possession of the promise or order is entitled to payment;

(2) does not state a payee; or

(3) states that it is payable to or to the order of cash or otherwise indicates that it is not payable to an identified person.

(b) Payable to order.--A promise or order that is not payable to bearer is payable to order if it is payable:

(1) to the order of an identified person; or

(2) to an identified person or order.

A promise or order that is payable to order is payable to the identified person.

(c) Payable to an identified person.--An instrument payable to bearer may become payable to an identified person if it is specially indorsed pursuant to section 3205(a) (relating to special indorsement; blank indorsement; anomalous indorsement). An instrument payable to an identified person may become payable to bearer if it is indorsed in blank pursuant to section 3205(b).

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