NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 152

SENATE BILL 121

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 51-1 RELATING TO MARRIAGE CEREMONIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 51-1 is hereby amended by adding the following words immediately following the word "chapter:" in line nine thereof:

"Provided further, that marriages solemnized and witnessed by a Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is, according to the usage of their religious community, shall be valid;".

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of April, 1965.