HB 431

Enacts GS 161-32, concerning identify verification and suspicious instruments, as follows. Defines instrument, suspicious instrument (an instrument submitted for registration for which the register of deeds has found any of four described circumstances, including that the name or information of an acknowledging officer who has purported to acknowledge the instrument does not match the official records for that acknowledging officer or that the instrument is materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent and has not been submitted by a trusted submitter or an authorized representative of a trusted submitter) and trusted submitter (includes a title insurance company, an attorney licensed to practice in the State, and a financial institution as defined in GS 53B-2).