26. The head of the Service de la vérification des détenteurs de produits financiers or the head of the Service des produits financiers non réclamés is authorized to sign any document in connection with(1) the obtaining of documents in order to take jurisdiction;
(2) the notice of quality referred to in article 699 of the Civil Code or in section 16 of the Unclaimed Property Act (chapter B-5.1);
(3) the discharge of any sum relating to a debt or the release of security;
(4) the discharge of any sum relating to a succession;
(5) a settlement and a partition or a transaction referred to in section 23 of the Unclaimed Property Act, up to a value not in excess of $100,000;
(6) the approval of a claim against unclaimed property, up to $100,000;
(7) the sale, expropriation, creation of a servitude or hypothec or any other alienation concerning an immovable;
(8) the renewal of a debt secured by a hypothec;
(9) the correction or ratification of the title to an immovable;
(10) the sale of any movable property at auction, by agreement or through a third person, the disposition of such property by other means in accordance with the procedures in force and the moving and storage of such property;
(11) the receipt, audit, recovery or liquidation of financial products;
(12) the receipt, management or liquidation of the content of a safety deposit box;
(13) the valuation and safekeeping of unclaimed financial products;
(14) authorization to transfer a retirement savings plan to a registered retirement savings fund;
(15) authorization to convert an annuity contract or a pension plan into a locked-in retirement account or to convert that account into a life income fund;
(16) the opening, transfer or closing of an account with a broker or another third person;
(17) the management, conversion or transfer of a personal or joint portfolio from one broker to another;
(18) the security deed in relation to securities, for the purpose of obtaining a duplicate of a lost or destroyed certificate;
(19) transactions relating to the management or liquidation of securities in registered form;
(20) the investigation conducted or ordered for unclaimed property, in accordance with section 33 of the Unclaimed Property Act;
(21) the sitting on a board of directors of a legal person and the administration or dissolution of a legal person, including the signing of legal notices and any document relating to the rights attached to securities administered by the Minister of Revenue;
(21.1) the liquidation or assignment of a legal person’s property;
(21.2) a unanimous shareholders’ agreement or a written declaration from the sole shareholder for the purposes of restricting or withdrawing the powers of the board of directors of a legal person;
(22) fiscal laws, in particular a fiscal law within the meaning of section 1 of the Tax Administration Act (chapter A-6.002);
(23) the redirection of mail or the termination of service by the postmaster;
(24) the rendering of accounts and the handing over of property to persons entitled to it on termination of the administration of the Minister of Revenue; and
(25) any services contract for an amount not exceeding $25,000.