{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-10b-65","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 10B-65","heading":"Acts of notaries public in certain instances validated.","body":"(a)\tAny acknowledgment taken and any instrument notarized by a person prior to qualification as a notary public but after commissioning or recommissioning as a notary public, or by a person whose notary commission has expired, is validated. The acknowledgment and instrument have the same legal effect as if the person qualified as a notary public at the time the person performed the act.\n(b)\tAll documents bearing a notarial seal and that contain any of the following errors are validated and given the same legal effect as if the errors had not occurred:\n(1)\tThe date of the expiration of the notary's commission is stated, whether correctly or erroneously.\n(2)\tThe notarial seal does not contain a readable impression of the notary's name, contains an incorrect spelling of the notary's name, or does not bear the name of the notary exactly as it appears on the commission, as required under G.S. 10B-37.\n(3)\tThe notary's signature does not comport exactly with the name on the notary commission or on the notary seal, as required by G.S. 10B-20.\n(4)\tThe notarial seal contains typed, printed, drawn, or handwritten material added to the seal, fails to contain the words \"North Carolina\" or the abbreviation \"NC\", or contains correct information except that instead of the abbreviation for North Carolina contains the abbreviation for another state.\n(5)\tThe date of the acknowledgement, the verification or proof, or the oath or affirmation states the correct day and month but lacks a year or states an incorrect year.\n(c)\tAll deeds of trust in which the notary was named in the document as a trustee only are validated.\n(d)\tAll notary acknowledgments performed before July 1, 2013, bearing a notarial seal are validated.\n(e)\tThis section applies to notarial acts performed on or before April 1, 2021. (1945, c. 665; 1947, c. 313; 1949, c. 1; 1953, c. 702; 1961, cc. 483, 734; 1965, c. 37; 1969, c. 83; c. 716, s. 1; 1971, c. 229, s. 1; 1973, c. 680, s. 1; 1977, c. 734, s. 1; 1979, c. 226, s. 2; c. 643, s. 1; 1981, c. 164, ss. 1, 2; 1983, c. 205, s. 1; 1985, c. 71, s. 1; 1987, c. 277, s. 9; 1989, c. 390, s. 9; 1991, c. 683, s. 2; 1997-19, s. 1; 1997-469, s. 2; 1998-228, s. 10; 1999-21, s. 2; 2001-154, s. 1; 2002-159, s. 27; 2003-38, s. 1; 2004-199, s. 6.; 2005-391, s. 4; 2008-194, s. 5; 2013-204, s. 1.5; 2021-91, s. 4(a).)","path":["Chapter 10B. Notaries.","Article 1. Notary Public Act.","Part 9. Validation of Notarial Acts."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_10B/GS_10B-65.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:56:12Z","sha256":"8edfaac11c5010caf0de0ce67c45e47f34ee13abb13383102665d54f145f1802","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-10b-64","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-10b-66"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}