NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 556

SENATE BILL 873

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 130-60 TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF A NEW BIRTH CERTIFICATE AFTER SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 130-60(a) as the same appears in Volume 3B of the General Statutes is hereby amended to add the following subdivision (4) immediately following subdivision (3) thereof:

"(4)      A written request from an individual is received by the State Registrar to change the sex on his or her birth record because of sex reassignment surgery, provided that the request is accompanied by a notarized statement from a physician licensed to practice medicine stating that he performed the sex reassignment surgery or that, based on his physical examination of the individual, he or she has undergone sex reassignment surgery."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1975.