NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 203
HOUSE BILL 400

AN ACT TO VALIDATE REGISTRATIONS OF INSTRUMENTS PERFORMED BY DEPUTY REGISTERS OF DEEDS AND CLERKS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 47-54 is rewritten to read as follows: Registration by register's deputies or clerks. All registrations of instruments heretofore made in the office of register of deeds of the several counties by the register's deputy or clerk, and signed in the name of the register of deeds by the deputy or clerk, or signed by the deputy in his own name and not in the name of the register of deeds, when such registrations are in all other respects regular, are hereby validated and declared to be of the same force and effect as if signed in the name of the register of deeds by such register.
Sec. 1 1/2.  This Act shall not affect pending litigation.
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  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 11th day of April, 1963.