NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 783

HOUSE BILL 681

 

 

AN ACT REQUIRING THAT CERTAIN DOCUMENTS ACCEPTED FOR PROBATE IN ONSLOW COUNTY BE IDENTIFED BY THE NAME OF THE DRAFTSMAN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. G. S. 47-17.1, 1957 Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"In Onslow County, the Clerk of the Superior Court shall not accept for probate or recordation any papers or documents affecting the title to real property, or which are or purport to be wills, other than holographic wills, unless there shall appear on the cover page of said papers or documents following the words 'drawn by' the signature of the person who drafted said papers or documents, or unless in some other manner the cover page shall clearly designate the draftsman of such documents: Provided, that papers or documents executed in other counties of North Carolina or in other states or countries for probate or recordation in any of said counties, or papers or documents prepared by any party to such papers or documents, may be accepted for probate or recordation without such designation on the cover page of such papers or documents."

Sec. 2. The failure to show thereon the name and address of the person who drafted or directed the drafting of any such instrument, document or paper writing or the failure to record such information shall not affect the validity of the notice by the registration thereof.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1959.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1959.