GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

 SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2012-22

SENATE BILL 830

AN ACT TO ALLOW iredell county to establish a SATELLITE REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE AND TO AUTHORIZE THE RECORDING OF DOCUMENTS AT That office.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Chapter 161 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 161-14.4. Satellite office.

(a) The county board of commissioners may by resolution establish a satellite office of the register of deeds at a location in the county other than the seat of government. Before a satellite office is established, the register of deeds shall certify to the board of county commissioners that the recording and indexing procedures to be used in the satellite office comply in all respects with the law and have been approved by the Secretary of State.

(b) Any instrument registered or document recorded at a satellite office of the register of deeds on or after the effective date of a resolution adopted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall be considered for all purposes a legally registered instrument or recorded document, and such instruments and documents shall be considered the same as though they had been registered or recorded in the register of deeds office at the seat of government."

SECTION 2.  This act applies to Iredell County only.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12^th day of June, 2012.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives