(A) If a participant or beneficiary or alternate payee (or other person claiming through a participant or beneficiary or alternate payee) must submit any writing of any kind required or permitted under the plan, the maker’s signature must be complete and formal, except as expressly provided by § 35.045. However, if the maker has a disability that precludes him or her from making a complete and formal signature and the Plan Administrator finds that an accommodation may be required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, a writing is signed if it bears or includes or incorporates any symbol executed or adopted by or on behalf of the maker with a present intention to authenticate the writing, or it is otherwise demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Plan Administrator that the maker had (at the relevant time) a present intention to adopt the writing.
(B) In addition to and not by limitation upon § 35.045, any writing of any kind required or permitted as to an investment may be signed in any manner provided by the investment, including, to the extent consistent with the investment, applicable investment law.
(Ord. NIRC 97-1, passed 1-15-1997)