EXECUTION AND VERIFICATION
§ 33.11. Execution.
(a) Signature. Except as may be otherwise ordered or requested by an agency, the original copy of each pleading, submittal or other document shall be signed in ink by the party in interest, or by his or its attorney, as required by subsection (b), and shall show the office and post office address of the party or attorney. Other copies filed shall be fully conformed thereto.
(b) Subscription.
(1) Pleadings, submittals and other documents filed with an agency shall be subscribed:
(i) By the person filing the documents, and severally if there is more than one person so filing;
(ii) By an officer thereof if it is a corporation, trust, association or other organized group;
(iii) By an officer or employe thereof if it is another agency or a political subdivision, or other governmental authority, agency or instrumentality; or
(iv) By an attorney having authority with respect thereto.
(2) Documents filed by a corporation, trust, association or other organized group, may be required to be supplemented by appropriate evidence of the authority of the officer or attorney subscribing the documents.
(c) Effect. The signature of the person subscribing a document filed with an agency constitutes a certificate by the individual that he has read the document being subscribed and filed, and knows the contents thereof; that if executed in a representative capacity, the document has been subscribed and executed in the capacity specified upon the document with full power and authority so to do; that the contents are true as stated, except as to matters and things, if any, stated on information and belief, and that as to those matters and things, he believes them to be true.
Cross References This section cited in 16 Pa. Code § 42.45 (relating to answers to interrogations); 19 Pa. Code § 13.8 (relating to execution); 25 Pa. Code § 1021.91 (relating to general); 28 Pa. Code § 1230a.23 (relating to docket); 34 Pa. Code § 111.11 (relating to content and form); 34 Pa. Code § 111.32 (relating to form/content); 34 Pa. Code § 131.31 (relating to form of pleadings); 49 Pa. Code § 31.103 (relating to applicability of other laws and rules); 49 Pa. Code § 31.115 (relating to disciplinary sanctions); 52 Pa. Code § 1.35 (relating to execution); 52 Pa. Code § 1001.35 (relating to execution); 58 Pa. Code § 495a.4 (relating to execution of documents); and 61 Pa. Code § 703.5 (relating to other submissions).
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