NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 701

HOUSE BILL 1207

 

 

AN ACT TO FURTHER EXTEND THE TIME FOR REGISTERING GRANTS OR COPIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 146 of Article 12 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 146-60.1.  Further extension of time for registering grants or copies. — The time for the registration of grants issued by the State of North Carolina, or copies of such grants duly certified by the Secretary of State under his official seal, be and the same hereby is extended for a period of four years from January 1, 1977, and such grants or copies thereof duly certified as above set forth may be registered within such time as fully as the original might have been registered at any time heretofore: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be held or have the effect to divest any rights, titles, or equities in or to the land covered by such grants or any of them acquired by any person from the State of North Carolina by or through any entry or grant made or issued since such grants were respectively issued, or those claiming through or under such subsequent entry or grant."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1977.