GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 282
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 28A-14-1(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 28A-14-1. Notice for claims.
(a) Every personal
representative and collector after the granting of letters shall notify all
persons, firms and corporations having claims against the decedent to present
the same to such personal representative or collector, on or before a day to be
named in such notice, which day must be at least six three months
from the day of the first publication or posting of such notice. The
notice shall set out a mailing address for the personal representative or
collector. The notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive
weeks in a newspaper qualified to publish legal advertisements, if any such
newspaper is published in the county. If there is no newspaper published
in the county, but there is a newspaper having general circulation in the
county, then at the option of the personal representative, or collector, the
notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in the
newspaper having general circulation in the county and posted at the courthouse
or the notice shall be posted at the courthouse and four other public places in
the county. Personal representatives are not required to publish or mail
notice to creditors if the only asset of the estate consists of a claim for
damages arising from death by wrongful act. When any collector or
personal representative of an estate has published or mailed the notice
provided for by this section, no further publication or mailing shall be
required by any other collector or personal representative."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and applies to the administration of the estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 1992.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives