NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 703

HOUSE BILL 1222

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT DOCUMENTS REGISTERED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS SHALL BEAR A DESIGNATION OF THE DRAFTSMAN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 47-17.1 is rewritten to read:

"The register of deeds of any county in North Carolina shall not accept for registration, nor shall any judge order registration pursuant to G.S. 47-14, of any deeds or deeds of trust, executed after January 1, 1980, unless the first page of the deeds or deeds of trust bears an entry showing the name of the draftsman of the instrument, except that papers or documents prepared in other states may be registered or ordered to be registered without having the name of the draftsman designated thereon."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1979.