NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 992
SENATE BILL 1226

AN ACT PERTAINING TO THE MODIFICATION OF LAND RECORDS IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  A new section known as G.S. 161-30 is written and adopted to read as follows:
"§ 161-30.  Modernization of land records. — (a) The County Commissioners of any county may require that the Register of Deeds shall not accept for registration any map or instrument affecting real property unless the following requirements are satisfied:
(1)	The name and address of the person to whom the map or instrument is to be returned is affixed on the face thereof.
(2)	The Grantee's or Owner's permanent mailing address is affixed on the face thereof.
(b)	In any county in which parcel identifiers have been assigned to any of the real property situated within the county, the County Commissioners may require that the Register of Deeds shall not accept for registration any map, deed, deed of trust or other instrument affecting real property unless the parcel identifier for all of the property described and affected is affixed and verified by the county on the face of the map or instrument or affixed and verified by the county as a part of the legal description contained in any instrument.
(c)	Failure to comply with the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall not affect the validity of any map or other instrument that is duly recorded."
Sec. 2.  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 18th day of March, 1974.