NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 60

HOUSE BILL 268

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROCEDURE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS TO WHICH THE REGISTER OF DEEDS IS A PARTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 47-14 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(e)       Any instrument required or permitted by law to be registered in which the register of deeds of the county of registration is a party may be proved or acknowledged before any magistrate or any notary public. Any such instrument presented for registration shall be examined by the clerk of superior court of the county of registration and if it appears that the execution and acknowledgment are in due form he shall so certify and the instrument shall then be recorded in the office of the register of deeds."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of March, 1973.