24. No deed, document or writing binds the company unless it is signed by the president, the vice-president, the secretary or a member of the personnel of the company and, in the case of such a member, only to the extent determined by by-law of the company.
The company may, by by-law and on the conditions it determines, allow a signature to be affixed by means of an automatic device to the documents it determines or a facsimile of a signature to be engraved, lithographed or printed on them. However, the facsimile has the same force as the signature itself only if the document is countersigned by a person authorized by the president of the company.
A by-law made pursuant to this section comes into force ten days after its date of publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on any later date it indicates.