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