Watauga County Quitclaim Deed (LLC Grantor) Form

A limited liability company cannot hold a pen. Someone signs for it, and North Carolina answers the authority question by reading that person's office off the face of the registered instrument. This fillable quitclaim deed is drawn around that reading: one limited liability company stands as Grantor, the company name repeats above the signature line, one company official signs beneath it, and a labeled blank records the office that official holds.

Why the office beside the signature matters

G.S. 47-18.3(a) is the provision a title examiner reaches for years later. Where a registered instrument shows on its face that it was signed in the ordinary course of business for a domestic or foreign limited liability company by its manager, member, president, vice-president, treasurer, or another official the subsection names, the instrument stands as to innocent third parties as though the board had authorized it, unless the paper reveals a potential breach of fiduciary obligation on its face. The section also spares such an instrument any attached or separately recorded resolution of the managers or members. Chapter 57D sits behind it: G.S. 57D-3-20 vests management in the managers, lets each manager act for the company in the ordinary course of its business, and makes every member a manager by virtue of membership unless the operating agreement provides otherwise. The deed puts the office on the page; the operating agreement decides who may sign.

One company, one signer, one certificate

The form recites a single Grantor company by legal name, state of organization, and mailing address, the last being what G.S. 105-317.2 asks of every grantor. The signature area repeats the company name, then carries a signature line, a printed-name line for the register's index, a date, and the office or title blank, with entries such as Manager, Managing Member, or President. One acknowledgment certificate follows the single signer. G.S. 47-38 supplies a certificate form that serves an individual signing as a manager or member of a limited liability company, whether or not the certificate recites the capacity. Positions in the records that present this configuration include a company distributing a parcel to its sole member as the company winds up, a parcel moving between two companies under common ownership in a restructuring, and a company releasing a parcel back to the member who contributed it. The form recites one conveying company and one signer: not two companies, not two officials signing together, and not an individual conveying individually.

The company releases what it has, and no more

North Carolina prescribes no quitclaim form, so the words carry the work. This deed remises, releases, and forever quitclaims the company's right, title, and interest, if any, and states in its own sentence that it conveys without covenant or warranty of title and enlarges nothing. G.S. 39-1 delivers whatever estate the company holds unless the deed plainly shows a smaller one, and G.S. 39-6.5 makes a seal unnecessary, so no company seal belongs on the signature line. Searchers reach the instrument as a quit claim deed, a quitclaim, or a non-warranty deed; under any label, liens and easements ride through the release.

Excise tax when no money changes hands

Page one reports the excise figure, which G.S. 105-228.32 makes the presenter's duty and the register's collection before recording. The G.S. 105-228.30 rate is one dollar per five hundred dollars, or part, of value. Entity transfers frequently land among the classes G.S. 105-228.29 places outside the tax: a gift, a transfer with no consideration due or paid by the transferee, and a transfer by merger, conversion, or consolidation. G.S. 105-228.28 reaches every non-governmental conveyance of North Carolina real estate, so the figure gets reported either way, zero included.

What the register reads first

The first page keeps the three inch stamp space G.S. 161-14(b) reserves, states the instrument type at its top, and below that gathers the drafter entry required by G.S. 47-17.1, the excise line, a parcel identifier blank for county indexing under G.S. 161-30, and a return address. Under G.S. 47-18 the deed becomes good against lien creditors and purchasers for value only from registration in the county holding the land.

Included: the deed as a fillable PDF, a completed example set in Gaston County where a company distributes a lot to its sole member in winding up, and a plain language guide covering each section, the authority statutes, the excise treatment, the grantee vesting menu, and county recording prerequisites. Nothing here is legal advice; it describes North Carolina law generally.