AN ACT to validate certain notarial acts.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 10A‑16(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	This section applies to notarial acts performed on or before March 1, 2003."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of May, 2003.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 12:40 p.m. this 14th day of May, 2003