NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 577

HOUSE BILL 471

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CHILDREN OF PRISONERS OF WAR AND MISSING IN ACTION VETERANS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 165-22, as the same appears in the 1972 Replacement Volume 3D of the General Statues, is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision (5) to read as follows:

"(5)      Class IV: Under this class a scholarship as defined in G.S. 165-21 shall be awarded to any child whose parent, while serving honorably as a member of the armed forces of the United States in active federal service during a period of war, as defined in G.S. 165-20(4), was listed by the United States Government for a total of more than 90 days as (i) missing in action, (ii) captured in line of duty by a hostile force, or (iii) forcibly detained or interned in line of duty by a foreign government or power."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of May, 1973.