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§ 47-30.2. Review Officer. <br />(a) The board of commissioners of each county shall, by resolution, designate by name <br />one or more persons experienced in mapping or land records management as a Review Officer to <br />review each map and plat required to be submitted for review before the map or plat is presented <br />to the register of deeds for recording. Each person designated a Review Officer shall, if <br />reasonably feasible, be certified as a property mapper pursuant to G.S. 147-54.4. A resolution <br />designating a Review Officer shall be recorded in the county registry and indexed on the grantor <br />index in the name of the Review Officer. <br />(b) The Review Officer shall review expeditiously each map or plat required to be <br />submitted to the Officer before the map or plat is presented to the register of deeds for recording. <br />The Review Officer shall certify the map or plat if it complies with all statutory requirements for <br />recording. <br />Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the register of deeds shall not accept for <br />recording any map or plat required to be submitted to the Review Officer unless the map or plat <br />has the certification of the Review Officer affixed to it. A certification shall be in substantially <br />the following form: <br />State of North Carolina <br />County of <br />I, ____________, Review Officer of __________ County, certify that the map or plat to <br />which this certification is affixed meets all statutory requirements for recording. <br /> <br />_______________________________ <br />Review Officer <br />Date__________________________ <br />(c) A map or plat must be presented to the Review Officer unless one or more of the <br />following conditions are applicable: <br />(1) The certificate required by G.S. 47-30(f)(11) shows that the map or plat is a <br />survey within the meaning of G.S. 47-30(f)(11)b. or c. <br />(2) The map or plat is exempt from the requirements of G.S. 47-30 pursuant to <br />G.S. 47-30(j) or (l). <br />(3) The map is an attachment that is being recorded pursuant to G.S. 47- <br />30(n). (1997-309, s. 3; 1998-228, s. 13.) <br /> <br />3