NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 186
SENATE BILL 305

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-9(11) RELATING TO BONDS OF GUILFORD COUNTY OFFICERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 153-9(11), as applicable to Guilford County, is hereby amended by rewriting the subdivision in its entirety to read as follows:
"(11)	To Approve Bonds of County Officers and Officials and Induct into Office.–To qualify and induct into office at the meeting of the board, on the first Monday in the month next succeeding their election or appointment, the following named county officers, to wit: sheriff, coroner, treasurer, register of deeds, and surveyor; and to take and approve the official bonds of such officers when they have been duly elected. The board shall also take and approve the official bonds of other county officials who are required by law to give such a bond. The board shall further have the authority to approve all official bonds in such amount as it deems advisable as long as the amount approved is at or above all statutory minimums. All official bonds shall be registered in the office of the register of deeds and the original of each may be deposited with the clerk of superior court, the register of deeds, or the clerk to the board for safekeeping."
Sec. 2.  This act shall apply to Guilford County.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1971.