NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 577

SENATE BILL 354

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 14-46 RELATING TO CONCEALING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-46, as it appears in 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-46.  Concealing birth of child. — If any person shall, by secretly burying or otherwise disposing of the dead body of a newborn child, endeavor to conceal the birth of such child, such person shall be guilty of a felony and punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. Any person aiding, counseling or abetting any other person in concealing the birth of a child in violation of this statute shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1977.