**Exhibit 31**

 

 

**CERTIFICATION**

 

 

I, Ralph E. Hanson, certify that:

 

1.             Ihave reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Pace Medical, Inc.;

 

2.                                    Based on myknowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material factor omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, inlight of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3.                                    Based on myknowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information includedin this report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer asof, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4.                               Iam responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) for thesmall business issuer and have:

 

a)                                    designedsuch disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls andprocedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that materialinformation relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidatedsubsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularlyduring the period in which this report is being prepared;

 

b)                                     evaluated theeffectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and proceduresand presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of thedisclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by thisreport based such evaluation; and

 

c)                                      Disclosed inthis report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control overfinancial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s mostrecent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely tomaterially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financialreporting; and

 

5.                                     I have disclosed, based

 

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                                                on my mostrecent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the smallbusiness issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small businessissuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a)                                   all significantdeficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internalcontrols over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adverselyaffect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize andreport financial information; and

 

b)                                  any fraud,whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have asignificant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financialreporting.

 

 
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|   | Date: August 14, 2003                                           |
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|   | /s/ Ralph E. Hanson                                             |
|   | Ralph  E. Hanson,                                               |
|   | President and Treasurer                                         |
|   | (principal executive  officer and  principal financial officer) |
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