NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1

SENATE BILL 25

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 50-4 WITH REGARD TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE DISTRICT COURT IN PROCEEDINGS FOR ANNULMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 50-4 is hereby amended by deleting from the first line thereof the word "superior" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "district" so that G.S. 50-4 reads as follows:

"§ 50-4.  What marriages may be declared void on application of either party — The district court, during a session of court, on application made as by law provided, by either party to a marriage contracted contrary to the prohibitions contained in the chapter entitled Marriage, or declared void by said chapter, may declare such marriage void from the beginning, subject, nevertheless, to the second proviso contained in G.S. 51-3."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be in full force and effect on and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of January, 1973.