§ 161-50.1 – Scope.
161-50.1. Scope. (a) This Article provides supplemental pension benefits for all county registers of deeds who are retired from the Local Governmental Employees’ Retirement System or an equivalent locally sponsored plan as herein described. (b) The Board of Trustees of the Local Governmental Employees’ Retirement System shall administer the provisions of this Article. (c) The […]
§ 161-20 – Certificate of survey registered.
161-20. Certificate of survey registered. It shall be the duty of the register of deeds in each county, when any grant is presented for registration with a certificate of survey attached, to register such certificate of survey, together with all endorsements thereon, together with said grant, and a record of any certificate of survey so […]
§ 161-21 – General index kept.
161-21. General index kept. The board of county commissioners shall, at the expense of the county, maintain a consolidated index of all the deeds and other documents affecting real property in the register’s office. (1868, c. 35, s. 13; Code, s. 3663; Rev., s. 2664; C.S., s. 3560; 1929, c. 327, s. 1; 1987, c. […]
§ 161-22 – Index of registered instruments.
161-22. Index of registered instruments. (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, the register of deeds shall provide and keep in the register’s office full and complete alphabetical indexes of the names of the parties to all liens, grants, deeds, mortgages, bonds, and other instruments required or authorized to be registered, and the indexes shall […]
§ 161-22.1 – Index and cross-index of immediate prior owners of land.
161-22.1. Index and cross-index of immediate prior owners of land. Whenever, any deed or other instrument conveying real property by a trustee, mortgagee, commissioner, or other officer appointed by the court, or by the sheriff under execution, is filed with the register of deeds for the purpose of being recorded, it shall be the duty […]
§ 161-22.2 – Parcel identifier number indexes.
161-22.2. Parcel identifier number indexes. (a) In lieu of the alphabetical indexes required by G.S. 161-21, 161-22 and 161-22.1, the register of deeds of any county in which unique parcel identifier numbers have been assigned to all parcels of real property may install an index by land parcel identifier numbers. For each instrument filed of […]
§ 161-22.3 – Minimum standards for land records management.
161-22.3. Minimum standards for land records management. In addition to the recording and indexing procedures set forth in this Article, the register of deeds shall follow the rules specifying minimum standards and procedures in land records management adopted by the Department of Secretary of State pursuant to G.S. 147-54.3(b1). (1991, c. 697, s. 2; 1993, […]
§ 161-23 – Clerk to board of commissioners.
161-23. Clerk to board of commissioners. The register of deeds, or such other county officer or employee as the board of county commissioners shall designate in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 153-40, shall be ex officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, and as such shall perform the duties imposed by law or […]
§ 161-26 – Duties unperformed at expiration of term.
161-26. Duties unperformed at expiration of term. Whenever, upon the termination for any cause of the term of office of the register of deeds, it appears that he has failed to perform any of the duties of his office, the board of commissioners shall cause the same to be performed by another person or the […]
§ 161-27 – Register of deeds failing to discharge duties; penalty.
161-27. Register of deeds failing to discharge duties; penalty. (a) If any register of deeds fails to perform any of the duties imposed or authorized by law, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and he shall be removed from office. (b) No assistant register of deeds or deputy register of deeds recusing […]