NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 417
SENATE BILL 528

AN ACT REGARDING BIRTH REGISTRATION OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 95 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended by rewriting the first sentence of G.S. 130-50(f) as that statute appears in Section 4 of that Chapter to read:
"If the mother was unmarried at all times from date of conception through date of birth, the name of the father shall not be entered on the certificate without the written consent, under oath, of both the father and the mother, in which case, upon written request of both parents, the surname of the child shall be entered on the certificate as that of the father."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of April, 1979.