NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1149

HOUSE BILL 1300

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 47 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE PROBATE AND RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTS BY THE CLERKS OF SUPERIOR COURT AND REGISTERS OF DEEDS OF CABARRUS COUNTY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 47-13, as the same appears in Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following G. S. 47-13.1 to be designated as G. S. 47-13.2 and to read as follows:

"G. S. 47-13.2. No instrument, document or paper writing required or permitted by law to be registered shall be accepted for probate or registration by any Clerk of Superior Court or Register of Deeds unless there shall appear on the instrument, document or paper writing the name and address of the person who drafted said instrument, document or paper writing, or unless in some similar manner the draftsman shall be designated thereon or therewith; and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Superior Court or Register of Deeds who accepts such instrument for probate or registration to record with said instrument the name and address of the person drafting said instrument, or such other designation identifying the draftsman as appears thereon or therewith; provided that any of the aforesaid instruments or documents or paper writings may be allowed for probate or registration where it shall be established to the satisfaction of the Clerk or the Register of Deeds that after due diligence the draftsman cannot be determined or is deceased. This Act shall not apply to any judgments, orders or decrees entered by any court in civil, criminal or special proceedings, or other official documents issued by any governmental official or agency."

Sec. 2. This Act shall apply to Cabarrus County only.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of June, 1959.