NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 238
SENATE BILL 354

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF CHILD IN CHAPTER 7A, ARTICLE 23, JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURE APPLICABLE TO CHILDREN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-278(1) is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(1)	'Child' is any person who has not reached his eighteenth birthday and is not married, emancipated, or a member of the armed services of the United States: Provided that, for the purposes of subdivision (2) of this section, 'child' is any person who has not reached his sixteenth birthday."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1975.