North Carolina General Statutes 105-394. Immaterial irregularities
Immaterial irregularities in the listing, appraisal, or assessment of property for taxation or in the levy or collection of the property tax or in any other proceeding or requirement of this Subchapter shall not invalidate the tax imposed upon any property or any process of listing, appraisal, assessment, levy, collection, or any other proceeding under this Subchapter.
The following are examples of immaterial irregularities:
(1) The failure of list takers, tax supervisors, or members of boards of equalization and review to take and subscribe the oaths required of them.
(2) The failure to sign the affirmation required on the abstract.
(3) The failure to list, appraise, or assess any property for taxation or to levy any tax within the time prescribed by law.
(4) The failure of the board of equalization and review to meet or to adjourn within the time prescribed by law or to give any required notice of its meetings and adjournment.
(5) Any defect in the description upon any abstract, tax receipt, tax record, notice, advertisement, or other document, of real or personal property, if the description be sufficient to enable the tax collector or any person interested to determine what property is meant by the description. (In such cases the tax supervisor or tax collector may correct the description on the documents bearing the defective description, and the correct description shall be used in any documents later issued in tax foreclosure proceedings authorized by this Subchapter.)
(6) The failure of the collector to advertise any tax lien.
(7) Repealed by Session Laws 1983, c. 808, s. 11.
(8) Any irregularity or informality in the order or manner in which tax liens on real property are offered for sale.
(9) The failure to make or serve any notice mentioned in this Subchapter.
(10) The omission of a dollar mark or other designation descriptive of the value of figures upon any document required by this Subchapter.
(11) Any other immaterial informality, omission, or defect on the part of any person in any proceeding or requirement of this Subchapter. (1939, c. 310, s. 1715; 1965, c. 192, ss. 1, 2; 1971, c. 806, s. 1; 1983, c. 808, ss. 10, 11.)
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 105-394
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.