NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 76

HOUSE BILL 249

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT MACHINERY ACT SERVICE OF PROCESS BY REGISTERED MAIL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 105-368(b) is amended by deleting the first two sentences and by substituting the following:

"To proceed under this section, the tax collector shall serve or cause to be served upon the taxpayer and the person owing or having in his possession the wages, rents, debts or other property sought to be attached a notice as provided by this subsection. The notice may be personally served by any deputy or employee of the tax collector or by any officer having authority to serve summonses, or may be served in any manner provided in Rule 4 of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to all attachments and garnishments commenced on or after this date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of March, 1981.