GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 855
AN ACT TO AMEND THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS OF G.S. 105-375.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 105-375(c) is amended by inserting a new sentence after the first sentence to read:
"A notice stating that the judgment will be docketed and that execution will be issued thereon shall also be mailed by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the current owner of the property (if different from the listing owner) if: (i) a deed or other instrument transferring title to and containing the name of the current owner was recorded in the office of the register of deeds or filed or docketed in the office of the clerk of superior court after January 1 of the first year in which the property was listed in the name of the listing owner, and (ii) the tax collector can obtain the current owner's mailing address through the exercise of due diligence."
Sec. 2. G.S. 105-375(i)(2) is amended to read:
"(2) In lieu of personal service of notice on the owner of the property, registered or certified mail notice shall be mailed to the listing owner (and to the current owner if notice was required to be mailed to him pursuant to subsection (c), above) at this last known address at least 30 days prior to the day fixed for the sale."
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective on ratification but shall not apply to foreclosure actions commenced prior to its effective date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1983.