Document Requiring Multiple Signatures

-49- (a) Authority to File. A stipulation or other joint document that requires the signatures of the CM/ECF Filing User and one or more required signers who have not physically signed the document may be filed electronically by the CM/ECF Filing User if (1) all required signers who have not physically signed the document confirm to the CM/ECF Filing User that the content of the document is acceptable and the CM/ECF Filing User is authorized to file the document; and (2) the electronically filed document includes the notation of “s/” next to the typed name of the required signers who have not actually signed the document. (b) Representation on Filing. A CM/ECF Filing User who electronically files a document under subdivision (a) represents that all of the required signers who have not physically signed the document have confirmed to the CM/ECF Filing User that the content of the document is acceptable and that the CM/ECF Filing User is authorized to file the document.

(c) Obligations of Required Signer. A required signer’s confirmation of acceptance of the document and of the CM/ECF Filing User’s authority to file the document constitutes the required signer’s signature for purposes of Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9011, other Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, these local rules, and any other purpose for which a signature is required in connection with proceedings before the court