NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 175

HOUSE BILL 601

AN ACT REQUIRING THE PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES IN WATAUGA AND STOKES COUNTY BEFORE RECORDING DEEDS CONVEYING PROPERTY SUBJECT TO DELINQUENT TAXES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. On and after July 1, 1975, the Register of Deeds of Watauga and Stokes County shall not receive for recordation any deed unless the same is accompanied by a certificate from the Watauga and Stokes County Tax Collector to the effect that all delinquent taxes upon the property described in the deed offered for recordation have been paid.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1975.