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Dear Superintendent Picard:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to "original signatures" on Federal and State grant applications. You indicate you are currently requiring original signatures on all applications, assurances, budget forms, budget revisions and project completion reports, but you ask whether a faxed signature is acceptable as an original signature so as to be considered legally binding.

In Tuttle v. State of Louisiana, Department of Public Safety andCorrections, 579 So.2d 1150 (La.App. 2d Cir. 1991) plaintiff brought an action…