GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SENATE BILL 29

RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT to authorize alamance county to require the payment of delinquent property taxes before recording deeds conveying property.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 161-31(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Applicability. - This section applies only to Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Burke, Cabarrus, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Currituck, Dare, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Hyde, Iredell, Jackson, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, McDowell, Montgomery, Nash, Northampton, Onslow, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Person, Pitt, Polk, Robeson, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, Stanly, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Tyrrell, Vance, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wilson, and Yadkin Counties."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12^th day of April, 2011.

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                                                                         Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

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                                                                         Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives