NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 91

HOUSE BILL 402

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 48 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO ADOPTIONS TO PROVIDE FOR THE RECORDATION OF ADULT ADOPTION PROCEEDINGS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 48-36 is hereby amended by adding the following subsection immediately following subsection (e), to be designated subsection (f), and to read as follows:

"(f)       Within 10 days after the order of adoption is entered, the clerk must file with the Department of Human Resources a copy of the petition giving the date of the filing of the original petition, the consent of the person sought to be adopted, and the order of adoption, and the Department of Human Resources must cause all papers pertaining to the proceeding to be permanently registered and filed."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of March, 1975.