NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 669

SENATE BILL 599

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROCEDURES AND GROUNDS PROVIDED FOR THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-289.30(e), as the same appears in the 1977 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting all of the first sentence thereof and substituting therefor the following sentence:

"All findings of fact shall be based on clear, cogent, and convincing evidence."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 7A-289.32, as the same appears in the 1977 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by repealing subdivision (1), by deleting the word "physically" on lines 1 and 2 of subdivision (2), and by renumbering the remaining subdivisions accordingly.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective 30 days after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1979.