NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 29

HOUSE BILL 177

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT NO BOND SHALL BE REQUIRED OF THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IF ALL OF THE HEIRS AGREE TO WAIVE BOND OR IF THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IS THE SOLE HEIR OR DEVISEE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 28A-8-l(b) is hereby amended by adding two new subdivisions thereof to read as follows:

"(6)      a personal representative who resides in the State of North Carolina when all of the heirs of the decedent are over 18 years of age and file with the clerk of superior court a written waiver instrument agreeing to relieve the personal representative from the necessity of giving bond; or

(7)        a personal representative when he is the sole heir and or devisee of the decedent."

Sec. 2.  This act shall apply to the estates of all decedents dying on or after October 1, 1975.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of February, 1977.