NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1258

HOUSE BILL 889

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF CERTAIN CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby created a new Section of the General Statutes of North Carolina to be known and designated as North Carolina G.S. 48-6.1 which shall read as follows:

"Whenever it has been judicially determined in a proceeding instituted pursuant to the provisions of North Carolina G.S. 110-25.1 that a child born out of wedlock is living under such conditions that the health or general welfare of such child is endangered by its living conditions and environment, then, the consent of the mother to the adoption of such child shall not be necessary as a prerequisite to the validity of the adoption of said child."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.