NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1246

SENATE BILL 884

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CLERK OF COURT APPROVE THE SALE OF A DECEDENT'S REAL PROPERTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 28A-17-12(a)(2) is hereby amended by placing a period after the phrase "joins in the sale, lease or mortgage" and by deleting the following from the end thereof:

"and the transaction is approved by the clerk of superior court. Approval of the clerk must appear in the deed, lease or mortgage, accompanied by a statement that he has made a finding that the transaction will not prejudice the payment of any valid claim against the estate."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1980, and shall apply only to the administration of estates of decedents dying on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.