31. No deed, document or writing binds the council unless it is signed by the chair of the board of directors, the president and chief executive officer of the council or a member of its personnel and, in the latter case, only to the extent determined by the by-laws of the council.
The council may, 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 such documents. However, the facsimile has the same force as the signature itself only if the document is countersigned by a person authorized by the chair of the board or the president and chief executive officer.
1992, c. 66, s. 31; 2009, c. 20, s. 7.