NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1227

HOUSE BILL 866

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR ABANDONMENT AND NONSUPPORT FOLLOWING A SIX MONTHS ABSENCE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Any man or woman who, without just cause or provocation, wilfully abandons his or her child or children for six (6) months and who wilfully fails or refuses to provide adequate means of support for his or her child or children during the six months' period, and who attempts to conceal his or her whereabouts from his or her child or children with the intent of escaping his lawful obligation for the support of said child or children, shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a felony and punished in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.