NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 962

SENATE BILL 377

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1A-1, Rule 4, is hereby amended by adding a new rule subsection as follows:

"(jl)       Personal Jurisdiction bv acceptance of service. — Any party personally, or through the persons provided in Rule 4(j), may accept service of process by notation of acceptance of service together with the signature of the party accepting service and the date thereof on an original or copy of a summons, and such acceptance shall have the same force and effect as would exist had the process been served by delivery of copy and summons and complaint to the person signing said acceptance."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.