NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 561

HOUSE BILL 348

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES BY PLACING THEREIN A NEW DEFINITION OF RESIDENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-6 as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting therein between the definition of "Cancelled" and the definition of "Revocation", the following definition of "Resident":

"Resident - Any individual who resides within this State for other than a temporary or transitory purpose for more than six months shall be presumed to be a resident of this State; but absence from the State for more than six months shall raise no presumption that the individual is not a resident of the State."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-38(26) as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by rewriting same to read as follows:

"Resident - Any individual who resides within this State for other than a temporary or transitory purpose for more than six months shall be presumed to be a resident of this State; but absence from the State for more than six months shall raise no presumption that the individual is not a resident of the State."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1969.