NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1205

HOUSE BILL 1772

 

 

AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE COMMON LAW CRIME OF SUICIDE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new general statute is hereby enacted as follows:

"§ 14-17.1.  Crime of suicide abolished. — The common law crime of suicide is hereby abolished as an offense."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.