NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 463

HOUSE BILL 125

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 7A-278(1) TO INCREASE THE AGE TO WHICH AN "UNDISCIPLINED CHILD" IS SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE JUVENILE COURT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-278(1) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence to read as follows:

"Provided, that for the purposes of subdivision (5) of this section, 'child' is any person who has not reached his eighteenth birthday, and is not married, emancipated or a member of the armed forces of the United States."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1973.