NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 201

SENATE BILL 506

AN ACT TO REQUIRE NONRESIDENTS OF ROBESON COUNTY TO APPLY FOR MARRIAGE LICENSES SEVENTY-TWO HOURS BEFORE ISSUANCE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. No marriage license shall be issued by any register of deeds for the marriage of any two persons, both of whom are nonresidents of the State of North Carolina, unless application for such license has been on file in the office of the register of deeds issuing the license for at least seventy-two hours.

Sec. 2. Such application shall be made in writing and filed subject to public inspection in the office of the register of deeds to whom the application is made and shall state the names of the parties to the marriage, their race, their ages, and their residence addresses.

Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

Sec. 5. This act shall only apply to Robeson County.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of April, 1973.