GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	2 

SENATE BILL 473
Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 4/23/91

Short Title:  Validate Judgments.	(Public)
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April 3, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROTECT THE EFFICACY OF CERTAIN JUDGMENTS ENTERED IN RELIANCE UPON DOCUMENTS NOTARIZED BY ATTORNEYS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 47-8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 47-8.  Attorney in action not to probate papers therein.
No practicing attorney-at-law has power to administer any oaths to a person to any paper-writing to be used in any legal proceedings in which he appears as attorney.  However, final judgments otherwise proper, entered in actions or proceedings in which the complaints or any other documents were verified in violation of this section shall not be void or voidable."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.