NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1320

HOUSE BILL 1610

 

 

AN ACT TO ENTITLE INDIGENT MENTAL DEFECTIVES TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN STERILIZATION PROCEEDINGS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-451(a) as the same appears in the 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes is hereby amended to add the following subdivision:

"(10)    A proceeding for sterilization under Chapter 35, Article 7 (Sterilization of Persons Mentally 111 and Mentally Retarded) of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on January 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.