GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 205
AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN ACTS OF NOTARIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 10-12 is rewritten to read:
"§ 10-12. Acts of certain notaries prior to and after qualification and whose commissions have expired validated. - (a) All acknowledgements taken and other official acts done by any person who has heretofore been appointed or reappointed as a notary public, but who at the time of acting had failed to qualify as provided by law, shall, notwithstanding, be in all respects valid and sufficient; and property conveyed by instruments in which the acknowledgements were taken by such notary public are hereby validated and shall convey the properties therein purported to be conveyed as intended thereby.
(b) All acknowledgements taken and other official acts done by any person who has heretofore been appointed as a notary public, but whose commission has expired at the time of acting, shall be in all respects valid and sufficient. Instruments conveying property acknowledged by this notary public are validated and convey the properties they purport to convey.
(c) All acknowledgements taken and other official acts done by any person who has heretofore been appointed or reappointed and who has qualified as a notary public, but who, prior to the expiration of the commission, fails to continue to satisfy voting registration or residence requirements promulgated by the Secretary of State shall, notwithstanding, be in all respects valid and sufficient; and property conveyed by instruments in which the acknowledgements were taken by such notary public are hereby validated and shall convey the properties therein purported to be conveyed as intended thereby.
(d) This section shall apply to notarial acts prior to April 1, 1983."
Sec. 2. Nothing herein contained shall affect pending litigation.
Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of April, 1983.