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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="2-303" title_number="2" title_name="General Provisions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Facsimile Signatures and Seals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any authorized officer, after filing with the Secretary of State the manual signature of the authorized officer certified under oath, may execute or cause to be executed with a facsimile signature instead of a manual signature:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any public security, if the signature of at least 1 authorized officer required or permitted to be placed on the public security is manually subscribed; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any instrument of payment.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a public security is required to be manually signed by a trustee, issuing agent, fiscal agent, registrar, or other agent or custodian, any other signature required or permitted to be placed on the public security may be a facsimile signature.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Upon compliance with this subtitle by the authorized officer, the facsimile signature of the authorized officer has the same legal effect as the manual signature of the authorized officer.</text>
  </level>
</section>
