AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN NOTARIAL ACTS WHERE A RECOMMISSIONED NOTARY FAILED TO TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE AGAIN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 1 of Chapter 10B of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 10B‑71.  Certain notarial acts validated when recommissioned notary failed to again take oath.
Any acknowledgment taken and any instrument notarized by a person who after recommissioning failed to again take the oath as a notary public is hereby validated. The acknowledgment and instrument shall have the same legal effect as if the person qualified as a notary public at the time the person performed the act. This section shall apply to notarial acts performed on or after May 15, 2004, and before July 8, 2009."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2009.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 9:30 a.m. this 27th day of July, 2009