NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 749

SENATE BILL 436

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 15 OF CHAPTER 116 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO INCLUDE FOR SCHOLARSHIP CONSIDERATION THE CHILDREN OF NORTH CAROLINA SERVICE MEN WHO ARE KILLED OR DISABLED IN THEATRES OF COMBAT OPERATIONS WHERE A STATE OF WAR HAS NOT BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 116-149(a) of Volume 3A of the General Statutes by adding to said subsection (a), the following sentence: "A person who was separated from the Armed Forces under conditions other than dishonorable and whose death or disability was incurred (1) as a direct result of armed conflict or (2) while engaged in extra-hazardous service including such service under conditions simulating war, shall also be deemed a '"veteran" and such death or disability shall be considered wartime service-connected."

Sec. 2.  Amend subsection (1) of G.S. 116-151, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 3A of the General Statutes, by deleting the words, "period of military services" as the same appear in the third line of said subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "period of military service or under the conditions of military service."

Sec. 3.  Amend subsection (1) of G.S. 116-151, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 3A of the General Statutes, by deleting the words, "period of", as the same appear on the fifth line of said subsection.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1965.