NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 534

SENATE BILL 486

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 48 AND CHAPTER 49 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO SPECIFY CERTAIN RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM REGARDING ADOPTIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 48-6(a) is hereby amended by adding the following sentence to the present section at the conclusion thereof:

"The legitimation of the child by any means subsequent to the signing of such consent of the mother shall not make such consent invalid nor adversely affect the sufficiency of such consent nor make necessary the consent of the father or his joinder as a party to the proceeding."

Sec. 2.  Chapter 49, Article 2, as it appears in 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following as G.S. 49-13.1:

"Legitimation of a child under the provisions of this Article shall not invalidate or adversely affect the sufficiency of the consent to adoption given by the mother alone, nor make necessary the consent of the father or his joinder as a party to the adoption proceeding, when the provisions of G.S. 48-6(a) and amendments thereto are applicable."

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  All laws and clauses of law in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act is intended to clarify and express in part the original, as well as the present, purpose and intent of Section 48-6(a) of the General Statutes of North Carolina as related to Chapter 49, Article 2.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon and after the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of May, 1969.