NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 535
SENATE BILL 217

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 47 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO PLATS, SUBDIVISIONS AND LAND SURVEYS AND RECORDING OF SAME.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 2, of Chapter 47 of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by renumbering G.S. 47‑32.1, as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A, as G.S. 47‑32.2, and by adding a new Section, to be designated as G.S. 47‑32.1 and to read as follows:
"G.S. 47‑32.1.  Photostatic copies of plats, etc; fees of clerk; alternative provisions. In a county to which the provisions of G.S. 47‑32 do not a apply, the following alternative provisions shall govern photostatic copies of plats filed in special proceedings:
"In all special proceedings in which a plat, map or blueprint shall be filed as a part of the papers, the Clerk of the Superior Court may have a photostatic copy of said plat, map or blueprint made on a sheet of the same size as the leaves in the book in which the special proceeding is recorded, and when made, shall place said photostatic copy in said book at the end of the report of the commissioners or other document referring to said plat, map or blueprint. The Clerk of Superior Court shall be allowed a fee to be fixed by the county commissioners not exceeding the sum of five dollars ($5.00) to be taxed in the bill of costs, which fee shall cover the cost of making said photostatic copy and all services of the Clerk in connection therewith."
Sec. 2.  Any plat filed as part of the papers in a special proceeding in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 47‑32.1, in a county to which the provisions of G.S. 47‑32 do not apply, between December 31, 1959, and the effective date of this Act, is hereby in all respects validated and confirmed.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1961.