NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1042

HOUSE BILL 921

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 48-29 TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN BORN OUTSIDE THE STATE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The first sentence of G.S. 48-29(a) is amended to read as follows:

"For proper cause the court may decree that the name of the child shall be changed to such name as may be prayed in the adoption petition or in a petition subsequently filed with the court by the adoptive parents."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 48-29 (a), as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is further amended by changing the period appearing in line 15 after the word "certificate" to a comma and adding the following words: "except as otherwise provided in subsection (d)."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 48-29 is further amended by adding a new subsection after subsection (c) to be designated subsection (d), and to read as follows:

"(d)      This Section shall apply in the case of a child born outside the State if the adoptive parents procure and furnish to the State Registrar a certified copy of the final order of adoption to be forwarded by the State Registrar to the appropriate vital statistics agency in the state of the child's birth, and further, if the adoptive parents procure and furnish to the State Registrar a birth certificate issued for the child by a duly authorized agency or representative of the state in which the child was born. The certificate so issued shall constitute the original certificate referred to in subsections (a) and (b). If the adoptive parents of a child born outside the State reside in another state at the time the petition is filed, the city and county of the court issuing the final order of adoption shall be shown on the new certificate as the place of birth."

Sec. 3 ˝.  Sections 2 and 3 shall apply only to the birth certificate of the child whose adoption is recorded under North Carolina Index Number 16429 in the files of the State Department of Public Welfare.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1967.