NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 658

HOUSE BILL 846

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 47-30 TO PERMIT THE RETURN OF CERTAIN RECORDED MAPS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Section 47-30(b) of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(b)      Maps to be Reproducible. — Each map presented for recording shall be a reproducible map in cloth, linen, film or other permanent material and submitted in this form. Recorded maps shall be maintained in map files, unless the filing officer makes a permanent master copy thereof by a process from which a direct copy can be made, in which event the original map may be returned to the person offering it for recordation after it has been properly recorded and indexed. A direct or photographic copy of each recorded map shall be placed in the map book maintained for that purpose and properly indexed for use. All filing officers are authorized to make permanent master copies of maps that have been recorded and filed before July 1, 1971, and may return the originals to the person offering them for recordation."

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

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