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Full Text of Senate Bill 875 } (j) The provisions of this section shall not apply to boundary 8 plats of areas annexed by municipalities nor to plats of municipal boundaries, whether or not required by law to be recorded. (k) The provisions of this section shall apply to all counties in North Carolina. wber a l nasal law Js in nnnfl i nt With f-lhi c cor•t i nn tho in f-hic coctinn shall apply Fai111rea of a Plat to nnnfnrm in all rornii romontc of thi g ctatlit-a -mbal 1 ho cnffi ni ont grniinrlc fn?- Hma rpcgy„gtor of rlooAc to rofnco 1-n ar+r•taayt tho plat fnr ronnrr9ati nn (1) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the registration of highway right- of- way plans provided for in G.S. 136- 19.4 nor to registration of roadway corridor official maps provided in Article 2E of Chapter 136. (m) Except as provided in subsection (n) , any map submitted for inclusion on the public record, whether submitted alone or attached to a deed or other instrument, shall be prepared by a registered land surveyor. Such a map shall either (i) have an original personal signature and original seal as approved by the North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors or (ii) be a copy of a map, already on file in the public record, that is certified by the custodian of the public record to be a true and accurate copy of a map bearing an original personal signature and original seal. The presence of the original personal signature and seal shall constitute a certification that the map conforms to the standards of practice for land surveying in North Carolina, as defined in the rules of the North Carolina State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. (n) A map that does not meet the requirements of subsection (m) of this section may be attached to a deed or other instrument submitted for inclusion in the public record only for illustrative purposes and only if the map is conspicuously labelled, 'THIS MAP IS NOT A CERTIFIED SURVEY AND NO RELIANCE MAY BE PLACED IN ITS ACCURACY. '" Section 3. Article 2 of Chapter 47 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read: "S 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: State of North Carolina County of 6 of 12 08/22/97 14:34:23