NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 164

HOUSE BILL 433

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACTS OF NOTARIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 10-12 is rewritten to read:

"§ 10-12. Acts of certain notaries prior to qualification and whose commissions have expired validated. - (a) All acknowledgements taken and other official acts done by any person who has heretofore been appointed or reappointed as a notary public, but who at the time of acting had failed to qualify as provided by law, shall, notwithstanding, be in all respects valid and sufficient; and property conveyed by instruments in which the acknowledgements were taken by such notary public are hereby validated and shall convey the properties therein purported to be conveyed as intended thereby.

(b)        All acknowledgements taken and other official acts done by any person who has heretofore been appointed as a notary public, but whose commission has expired at the time of acting, shall be in all respects valid and sufficient. Instruments conveying property acknowledged by this notary public are validated and convey the properties they purport to convey."

Sec. 2. G.S. 10-16.1 as it appears in the 1979 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes is hereby reenacted.

Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shall affect pending litigation.

Sec. 4. This act shall apply only to those acts performed on or before the effective date of this act.

Sec. 5. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1981.