GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 620
AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES IN THE LAW RELATING TO REGISTERS OF DEEDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 45-37(a)(2)e. is amended by adding immediately after the word "institution," the phrase "or savings and loan association,".
Sec. 2. G.S. 45-37.2 is amended by adding at the end a new sentence to read:
"The fee for recording a notice of satisfaction shall be the fee for recording instruments in general provided in G.S. 161-10(a)(1)."
Sec. 3. G.S. 47-3 and G.S. 47-7 are repealed.
Sec. 4. G.S. 161-3 is amended by deleting the phrase "the board of county commissioners" and substituting "a person authorized to administer oaths as defined in G.S. 11-7.1".
Sec. 5. G.S. 161-21 is amended by deleting the phrase ", and the register shall afterwards keep up such index without any additional compensation".
Sec. 6. This act is effective upon ratification. Any oath of office taken by a register of deeds before a person authorized to administer oaths as defined in G.S. 11-7.1 and not before the board of county commissioners is hereby validated.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of July, 1987.