NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 759

HOUSE BILL 840

AN ACT TO ALLOW PHYSICIANS LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN OTHER STATES TO MAKE THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS REQUIRED OF APPLICANTS FOR MARRIAGE LICENSES IN NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The first sentence of G.S. 51-11 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"Such certificate, upon the basis of which license to marry is granted, shall be executed by any physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina, any other state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, whose duty it shall be to examine such applicants and to issue such certificate in conformity with the requirements of Sections 51-9 to 51-13."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1969.