NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1279

HOUSE BILL 1054

AN ACT TO ELIMINATE REFERENCES TO RACE FROM THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The General Statutes are amended as follows:

(1)        By deleting the second sentence of G.S. 58-267.

(2)        By repealing G.S. 65-38.

(3)        By deleting from G.S. 90-212 the word "white" wherever it appears, and the clause "and the bodies of all such Negro prisoners dying under similar conditions shall be equally distributed among the Negro funeral homes in Raleigh."

(4)        By deleting from G.S. 105-323(a), the word "four" and substituting therefor the word "two", by deleting therefrom the word "white" in paragraph (1), by deleting paragraphs (2) and (3) in their entirety, and by renumbering paragraph (4) as paragraph (2).

(5)        By deleting from G.S. 105-323(b) the word "four" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "two".

(6)        By repealing G.S. 115-274 through 115-295.

(7)        By deleting the last sentence of G.S. 115-323.

(8)        By deleting from G.S. 115-325 the word "white" and the phrase "and in the department of colored all colored deaf-mutes and blind children."

(9)        By deleting the word "white" from G.S. 115-336.

(10)      By deleting the word "white" from G.S. 115-341.

(11)      By deleting the word "white" from G.S. 115-345.

(12)      By deleting the word "colored" from G.S. 115-347.

(13)      By repealing G.S. 134-21.

(14)      By deleting the word "white" from G.S. 134-69.

(15)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-79.

(16)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-82.

(17)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.

(18)      By deleting the word "Negro" from the title to Article 6A of Chapter 134.

(19)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.1.

(20)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.2.

(21)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.4 wherever it appears.

(22)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.7.

(23)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-84.9.

(24)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-85.

(25)      By deleting the word "Negro" from G.S. 134-87.

(26)      By deleting from G.S. 134-91 the word "Negro", wherever it appears, and by deleting the second and third sentence of the third paragraph.

(27)      By deleting from Sec. 153-201, in the caption the words "races and" and in the body the words "and races".

(28)      By deleting from Sec. 105-335, on line 7, the words "white and Negro", and from line 8 the word "separately,".

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.