Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218 § 14

Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 218:14 - Facsimile signatures

Clerks and assistant clerks of district courts may sign process issued by the said courts, and court records, documents or other legal papers or copies thereof, relating to criminal, delinquent, wayward and neglected cases made or issued by such clerks or assistant clerks in conformity with law, except search warrants and process authorizing arrests or commitments, by imprinting thereon a facsimile or electronic rendering of the signature of the clerk or assistant clerk; and such signatures shall have the same validity as their written signatures.

Complaints for violations of the parking law, brought under section twenty A or section twenty C of chapter ninety, may be signed by the complainant by imprinting thereon a facsimile or electronic rendering of his signature. Such signature shall have the same validity as his written signature.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 218, § 14

Amended by Acts 2022 , c. 175, §§  43, 44 eff. 11/8/2022, app. to estates of homestead arising or created before, on or after the effective date, except with respect to subject matter of any final judgment to the contrary by court of competent jurisdiction in an action commenced prior to said effective date.

Amended by Acts 2022 , c. 175, § 42, eff. 11/8/2022, app. to estates of homestead arising or created before, on or after the effective date, except with respect to subject matter of any final judgment to the contrary by court of competent jurisdiction in an action commenced prior to said effective date.