Ohio Code 1303.50 – Alteration – UCC 3-407
(A) “Alteration” means either of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1303.50
- Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Ohio Code 1303.01
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Party: means a party to an instrument. See Ohio Code 1303.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) An unauthorized change in an instrument that purports to modify in any respect the obligation of a party.
(2) An unauthorized addition of words or numbers or other change to an incomplete instrument relating to the obligation of a party.
(B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, an alteration fraudulently made discharges a party whose obligation is affected by the alteration unless that party assents or is precluded from asserting the alteration. No other alteration discharges a party, and the instrument may be enforced according to its original terms.
(C) A payor bank or drawee paying a fraudulently altered instrument or a person taking it for value, in good faith and without notice of the alteration, may enforce rights with respect to the instrument according to its original terms or, if the incomplete instrument was altered by unauthorized completion, according to its terms as completed.