47-30.2. Review Officer.
(a) The board of commissioners of each county shall, by resolution, designate by name one or more persons experienced in mapping or land records management as a Review Officer to review each map and plat required to be submitted for review before the map or plat is presented to the register of deeds for recording. Each person designated a Review Officer shall, if reasonably feasible, be certified as a property mapper pursuant to G.S. 147-54.4. A resolution designating a Review Officer shall be recorded in the county registry and indexed on the grantor index in the name of the Review Officer.
(b) The Review Officer shall review expeditiously each map or plat required to be submitted to the Officer before the map or plat is presented to the register of deeds for recording. The Review Officer shall certify the map or plat if it complies with all statutory requirements for recording.
Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the register of deeds shall not accept for recording any map or plat required to be submitted to the Review Officer unless the map or plat has the certification of the Review Officer affixed to it. A certification shall be in substantially the following form:
I, ____________, Review Officer of __________ County, certify that the map or plat to which this certification is affixed meets all statutory requirements for recording.
(c) A map or plat must be presented to the Review Officer unless one or more of the following conditions are applicable:
(1) The certificate required by G.S. 47-30(f)(11) shows that the map or plat is a survey within the meaning of G.S. 47-30(f)(11)b. or c.
(2) The map or plat is exempt from the requirements of G.S. 47-30 pursuant to G.S. 47-30(j) or (l).
(3) The map is an attachment that is being recorded pursuant to G.S. 47-30(n). (1997-309, s. 3; 1998-228, s. 13.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 47 - Probate and Registration
§ 47-17 - Probate and registration sufficient without livery of seizin, etc.
§ 47-18 - Conveyances, contracts to convey, options, and leases of land.
§ 47-18.1 - Registration of certificate of entity name change, merger, consolidation, or conversion.
§ 47-18.2 - Registration of Inheritance and Estate Tax Waiver.
§ 47-18.3 - Execution of corporate instruments; authority and proof.
§ 47-19 - Unregistered deeds prior to January, 1920, registered on affidavit.
§ 47-20.1 - Place of registration; real property.
§ 47-20.2 - Place of registration; personal property.
§ 47-20.3 - Place of registration; instruments covering both personal property and real property.
§ 47-20.4 - Place of registration; chattel real.
§ 47-20.5 - Real property; effectiveness of after-acquired property clause.
§ 47-20.6 - Affidavit for permanent attachment of titled manufactured home to real property.
§ 47-22 - Counties may provide for photographic or photostatic registration.
§ 47-24 - Conditional sales or leases of railroad property.
§ 47-25 - Marriage settlements.
§ 47-29 - Recording of bankruptcy records.
§ 47-29.1 - Recordation of environmental notices.
§ 47-30 - Plats and subdivisions; mapping requirements.
§ 47-30.1 - Plats and subdivisions; alternative requirements.
§ 47-31 - Certified copies may be registered; used as evidence.
§ 47-32 - Photographic copies of plats, etc.
§ 47-32.1 - Photostatic copies of plats, etc.; alternative provisions.
§ 47-32.2 - Violation of § 47-30 or § 47-32 a misdemeanor.
§ 47-33 - Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian may be registered.
§ 47-34 - Certified copies of deeds made by alien property custodian admissible in evidence.
§ 47-35 - Register to fill in deeds on blank forms with lines.
§ 47-36 - Errors in registration corrected on petition to clerk.
§ 47-36.1 - Notice of errors in recorded instruments of title.
§ 47-36.2 - Cure of obvious description errors in recorded instruments.