Requirements for signatures on documents.

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IA Code › Title XII › Chapter 501A › Section 501A.103

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A document is signed when a person has affixed the person’s name on a document. A person authorized to do so by this chapter, the articles or bylaws, or by a resolution approved by the directors or the members must sign the document. A signature on a document may be a facsimile affixed, engraved, printed, placed, stamped with indelible ink, transmitted by facsimile or electronically, or in any other manner reproduced on the document.

2005 Acts, ch 135, §3; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §52

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