NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1959 SESSION

CHAPTER 59

SENATE BILL 51

AN ACT TO AMEND G. S. 7-103 RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE GASTON COUNTY DOMESTIC RELATIONS AND JUVENILE COURT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. G. S. 7-103 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"In Gaston County in all cases where there is a controversy relating to the custody of minor children between the parents of such children or between any other persons or between any person and any officer, agency or institution of the State or any of its political subdivisions or between any person and public or private institution, concurrent jurisdiction is vested in the Gaston County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court to hear and determine the issues involved in such controversy. Any controversy now or hereafter pending in the Superior Court of Gaston County may be remanded by the judge presiding over such court to the Gaston County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court for hearing and determination of the issues involved."

Sec. 2. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of March, 1959.