NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 552

SENATE BILL 365

AN ACT TO CONSTRUE "JUVENILE" AS ANY PERSON WHO HAS NOT REACHED HIS EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY IN APPLYING FOR THE RETURN OF A RUNAWAY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 110-64, as it appears in 1975 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by rewriting the last sentence to read as follows: "In applying the provisions of Article IV of the compact to secure the return of a runaway from North Carolina, the courts of this State shall construe the word 'juvenile' as used in this Article to mean any person who has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1977.