6-9-2. Facsimile signature.
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Any authorized officer, after filing with the secretary of state his manual signature certified by him under oath, may execute or cause to be executed with a facsimile signature in lieu of his manual signature:
A. any public security, provided that at least one signature required or permitted to be placed thereon by statute, charter or the ordinance, resolution or other official action authorizing the public security shall be manually subscribed; and
B. any instrument of payment.
Upon compliance with the Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act by the authorized officer, his facsimile signature has the same legal effect as his manual signature.
History: 1953 Comp., § 5-9-2, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 118, § 2; 1983, ch. 265, § 6.