GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2009-227

SENATE BILL 268

 

 

AN ACT to eliminate the requirement of an elected official recommendation for notary public applicants in counties with more than five thousand two hundred and fifty notaries public.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 10B-5(b)(9) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      A person qualified for a notarial commission shall meet all of the following requirements:

(9)        Obtain the recommendation of one publicly elected official in North Carolina and submit the recommendation with the application. The requirement of this subdivision shall not apply to any applicant who seeks to receive the oath of office from the register of deeds of a county where more than 15,0005,250 active notaries public are on record on January 1 of the year when the application is filed."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of June, 2009.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 5:48 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2009