NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 774

HOUSE BILL 1254

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FEES FOR REGISTRATION OF LAND TITLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 43-5 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 43-5.  Fees of officers. — The examiner hereinbefore provided for shall receive, as may be allowed by the clerk, a minimum fee of five dollars ($5.00) for such examination of each title of property assessed upon the tax books at the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or less; for each additional thousand dollars ($1,000) of assessed value of property so examined he shall receive fifty cents (50˘); for examination outside of the county he shall receive a reasonable allowance. There shall be allowed to the register of deeds for copying the plot upon registration of titles book two dollars ($2.00) for the first page and one dollar ($1.00) for each succeeding page; for copying or recording new certificates under this Chapter, two dollars ($2.00) for the first page and one dollar ($1.00) for each succeeding page; for issuing the certificate and new certificates under this Chapter, fifty cents (50˘) for each; for noting the entries or memorandum required and for the entries noting the cancellation of mortgages and all other entries, if any, herein provided for, fifty cents (50˘) for each entry. The county or other surveyor employed under the provisions of this Chapter shall not be allowed to charge more than forty cents (40˘) per hour for his time actually employed in making the survey and the map, except by agreement with the petitioner, but he shall be allowed a minimum fee of two dollars ($2.00).

There shall be no other fees allowed of any nature except as herein provided, and the bond of the register, clerk and sheriff shall be liable in case of any mistake, malfeasance, or misfeasance as to the duties imposed upon them by this Chapter in as full a manner as such bond is now liable by law."

Sec. 2.  All laws in conflict with this act are repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1977.