NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 108

HOUSE BILL 179

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO CONSENT OF DESERTED WIVES TO STERILIZATION OPERATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-271 is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of the Section, substituting a comma in lieu thereof, and adding the following: "or, in the case of a wife to be operated upon, unless she shall furnish an affidavit that her husband has abandoned her and failed to contribute to her support for at least the preceding six months."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of March, 1965.