NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 402

HOUSE BILL 769

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL STATUTES TO ELIMINATE SEX-BASED DISTINCTIONS THAT CREATE DISCRIMINATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The following sections of the General Statutes are repealed:

"§ 14-48.  Slandering innocent women.

"§ 14-24.  Obtaining carnal knowledge of married woman by personating husband.

"§ 14-25.  Attempted carnal knowledge of married woman by personating husband.

"§ 14-180.  Seduction.

"§ 14-185.  Inducing female persons to enter hotels or boardinghouses for immoral purposes.

"§ 14-187.  Permitting unmarried female under 18 in house of prostitution.

"§ 14-198.  Lewd women within three miles of colleges and boarding schools.

"§ 14-262.  Requiring female prisoners to work in chain gang.

"§ 14-319.  Marrying females under 16 years old.

"§ 72-39.  Inducing female to enter tourist camps, etc., for immoral purpose made misdemeanor.

"§ 99-4.  Charging innocent woman with incontinency."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1975.