GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1997 SESSION

 

 

S.L. 1997-208

HOUSE BILL 482

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW ALL HANDICAPPED PERSONS TO USE A REGISTERED SIGNATURE FACSIMILE AS A MARK OF THEIR LEGAL SIGNATURE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 22A-1 reads as rewritten:

"§ 22A-1.  Use of a signature facsimile by a visually handicapped person.

A visually handicapped person, as defined in G.S. 111-11G.S. 168A-3(4), may use a registered signature facsimile as a proper mark of his the person's legal signature. An example of the signature facsimile shall be registered by the visually  handicapped person with the clerk of the superior court in the county of his domicile. where the person lives. The registered signature facsimile may be revoked at any time in writing by the visually handicapped person."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of June, 1997.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

 

s/   Harold J. Brubaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

 

Approved 5:21 p.m. this 19th day of June, 1997