NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 576

SENATE BILL 350

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 6-21 RELATING TO COSTS IN CIVIL ACTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 6-21, as it appears in 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is amended in subdivision (1) by deleting the word "widow" and substituting therefor the words "surviving spouse"; and, G.S. 6-21 is further amended in subdivision (4) by deleting the words and punctuation "the wife, either by the husband or by her from her separate estate" and substituting therefor the words "either spouse from the sale and separate estate of either spouse".

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1977.