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Code · North Carolina · Chapter 47 — Probate and Registration

§ 47-81.2. Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.

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§ 47-81.2. Before United States Army, etc., officers, and other service members.
In all cases where instruments and writings have been proved or acknowledged before any commissioned officer of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard or any officer of the United States Merchant Marine having the rank of lieutenant, senior grade, or higher, such proofs or acknowledgments, where valid in other respects, are hereby ratified, confirmed and declared valid. All proofs or acknowledgments made by any military personnel authorized by the Congress of the United States are hereby ratified, confirmed, and declared valid and shall not require the affixation of a seal where valid in other respects.
(1943, c. 159, s. 2; 2011-183, s. 32; 2013-204, s. 1.27; 2025-20, s. 2.4.)
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