**Exhibit31**

 

**CERTIFICATION**

 

I, Ralph E. Hanson, President and Treasurer of Pace Medical, Inc.,certify that:

 

1.                                       I have reviewedthis 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.                                       I am responsible for establishing andmaintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange ActRules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) for the small business issuer and have:

 

**a)**                                      designed such disclosure controlsand procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to bedesigned under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating tothe small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is madeknown to me by others within those entities, particularly during the period inwhich this report is being prepared;

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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 in thisreport 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 havedisclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control overfinancial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the auditcommittee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or personsperforming 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

 

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

 

 
|   | Date: May 24, 2004                                                                      |
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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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