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3 <br /> § 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 <br /> to review each map and plat required to be submitted for review before the map or plat is <br /> presented to the register of deeds for recording. Each person designated a Review Officer shall, <br /> if 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 <br /> grantor 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 <br /> recording. The Review Officer shall certify the map or plat if it complies with all statutory <br /> requirements for 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 /> 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)(I I)b. or c. <br /> (2) The map or plat is exempt from the requirements of G.S. 47-30 pursuant to <br /> G.S. 47-300) or(1). <br /> (3) The map is an attachment that is being recorded pursuant to G.S. 47-30(n). <br /> (1997-309, s. 3; 1998-228, s. 13.) <br /> G.S. 47-30.2 Page 1 <br />