§ 39-5. Official deed, when official selling or empowered to sell is not in office. - North Carolina Statutes

§39‑5.  Official deed, when official selling or empowered to sell is notin office.

When a sheriff, coroner, ortax collector, in virtue of his office, sells any real or personal property andgoes out of office before executing a proper deed therefor, he may execute thesame after his term of office has expired; and when he dies or removes from theState before executing the deed, his successor in office shall execute it. Whena sheriff or tax collector dies having a tax list in his hands for collection,and his personal representative or surety, in collecting the taxes, makes saleaccording to law, his successor in office shall execute the conveyance for theproperty to the person entitled. (R.C., c. 37, s. 30; Code, s.1267; 1891, c. 242; Rev., ss. 950, 951; C.S., s. 995; 1971, c. 528, s. 36.)