NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 965

HOUSE BILL 968

AN ACT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT DECREES AND ORDERS CONCERNING DISSOLUTIONS AND CANCELLATIONS OF CORPORATE CHARTERS ARE TO BE RECORDED BY THE REGISTERS OF DEEDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 55-129, as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2B of The General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"The register of deeds shall record and index the order or decree in the Record of Incorporations; promptly after the recordation, the register shall note the fact of recordation on the said copy and return it to the corporation or its representative. If the corporation or its representative cannot be located, the register may destroy the copy."

Sec. 2.  The last sentence of G.S. 105-230, as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2D of The General Statutes of North Carolina, is deleted and the following is substituted therefor:

"The Secretary of State shall immediately notify by certified mail every such domestic or foreign corporation of the action taken by him, and also shall immediately certify such suspension to the register of deeds of the county in which the principal office or place of business of such corporation is located in this State with instructions to said register of deeds, and it shall be the register's duty to record and index the suspension in the Record of Incorporations; promptly after the recordations, the register shall note the fact of recordation on the said copy and return it to the corporation or its representative. If the corporation or its representative cannot be located, the register may destroy the copy."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1969.