NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 878

HOUSE BILL 1201

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A VISUALLY HANDICAPPED PERSON MAY USE A REGISTERED SIGNATURE FACSIMILE AS A PROPER MARK OF HIS LEGAL SIGNATURE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The General Statutes of North Carolina are hereby amended by adding a new Chapter to follow Chapter 22 to read as follows:

"Chapter 22A.

"Signatures.

"§ 22A-1.  Use of a signature facsimile by a visually handicapped person. A visually handicapped person, as defined in G.S. 111-11, may use a registered signature facsimile as a proper mark of his 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. The registered signature facsimile may be revoked at any time in writing by the visually handicapped person."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of February, 1974.