NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION
CHAPTER 1205
HOUSE BILL 1772
AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE COMMON LAW CRIME OF SUICIDE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. A new general statute is hereby enacted as follows:
"§ 14-17.1. Crime of suicide abolished. — The common law crime of suicide is hereby abolished as an offense."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.