NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 733

HOUSE BILL 512

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 10‑9 RELATING TO OFFICIAL ACTS OF NOTARIES PUBLIC; SIGNATURES; APPEARANCE OF NAMES; NOTARIAL SEALS OR STAMPS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina, do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 10‑9 is hereby rewritten in its entirety to read as following:

"G.S. 10‑9.  Official acts of notaries public; signatures; appearance of names; notarial seals or stamps. Official acts of notaries public shall be attested (1) by their proper signatures, (2) the readable appearance of  their names, either from their signatures or otherwise and (3) by the clear and legible impression of their notarial seals or by the clear and legible appearance of their notarial stamps: Provided, that after an instrument bearing the official act of a notary public has been properly recorded in the office of the register of deeds provision (2) above shall be conclusively presumed to have been complied with."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall not affect pending litigation.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1961.