GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 119
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 47-30(m) reads as rewritten:
"(m) Except as provided in
subsection (n), any Any map prepared by a registered land
surveyor and submitted for inclusion on the public record, whether
submitted alone or attached to a deed or other instrument, shall be prepared
by a registered land surveyor. conform to the standards of practice for
land surveying in North Carolina, as defined in the Board rules of the North
Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land
Surveyors. In the interest of the public welfare, and to assure that maps
have not been altered prior to submission for recording, and in accordance with
G.S. 89C-26, the maps shall have Such a map shall either (i) have an
original personal signature and original seal as approved by the North Carolina
State Board for of Registration for Professional Engineers and
Land Surveyors. Surveyors or (ii) be a copy of a map, already on file
in the public record, that is certified by the custodian of the public record
to be a true and accurate copy of a map bearing an original personal signature
and original seal. The presence of the original personal signature and
seal shall constitute a certification that the map conforms to the standards of
practice for land surveying in North Carolina, as defined in the rules of the
North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land
Surveyors. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the
recordation of a document that includes an attachment not prepared by a
registered land surveyor."
Sec. 2. G.S 47-30 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(n) A map that does not meet the requirements of subsection (m) of this section may be attached to a deed or other instrument submitted for inclusion in the public record only for illustrative purposes and only if the map is conspicuously labelled, 'THIS MAP IS NOT A CERTIFIED SURVEY AND NO RELIANCE MAY BE PLACED IN ITS ACCURACY.'"
Sec. 3. G.S. 89C-26 reads as rewritten:
"§ 89C-26. Duties of register of deeds.
It shall be unlawful for the recorder The register of
deeds or the register of titles or any other county or proper
public authority, to authority may not file or record any map,
plat, survey, or other documents, within the definition of land surveying,
which do not contain an original have impressed thereon, and affixed
thereto, the personal signature and original seal of a registered
land surveyor by whom, or under whose responsible charge charge, the
map, plat, survey, or other documents were prepared. prepared, except
as provided in G.S. 47-30(m) and (n)."
Sec. 4. This act becomes effective October 1, 1993.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of June, 1993.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives