NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 229

SENATE BILL 154

 

 

AN ACT TO VALIDATE ACTS OF NOTARIES PUBLIC, IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 10-12 is hereby amended by rewriting this Section to read as follows:

"§ 10-12.  Acts of notaries public in certain instances validated. — The acts of any person heretofore performed after appointment as a notary public and prior to qualification as a notary public or upon reappointment and prior to qualification:

(1)        in taking any acknowledgment, or

(2)        in notarizing any instrument,

are all hereby declared to be valid and of the same legal effect as if such person had qualified as a notary public prior to performing any such acts."

Sec. 2.  This act shall not apply to pending litigation.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of April, 1971.