[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 17, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 17CFR12.12]

[Page 275]
 
              TITLE 17--COMMODITY AND SECURITIES EXCHANGES
 
             CHAPTER I--COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
 
PART 12_RULES RELATING TO REPARATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart A_General Information and Preliminary Consideration of Pleadings
 
Sec.  12.12  Signature.

    (a) By whom. All documents filed with the Commission shall be signed 
personally:
    (1) By the person or persons on whose behalf they are tendered for 
filing;
    (2) By a general partner, officer or director of a partnership, 
corporation, association, or other legal entity; or
    (3) By an attorney-at-law having authority with respect thereto.

The Proceedings Clerk may require appropriate evidence of the authority 
of a person subscribing a document on behalf of another person.
    (b) Effect. The signature on any document of any person acting 
either for himself or as attorney or agent for another constitutes 
certification by him that:
    (1) He has read the document subscribed and knows the contents 
thereof;
    (2) If executed in any representative capacity, it was done with 
full power and authority to do so;
    (3) To the best of his knowledge, information, and belief, every 
statement contained in the document is true and not misleading; and
    (4) The document is not being interposed for delay.