NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 585

SENATE BILL 4

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO LOWER THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN NORTH CAROLINA TO 18 YEARS OF AGE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The General Statutes of North Carolina are hereby amended by inserting therein a new chapter entitled "Minors" and designated Chapter 48A to read as follows:

"Chapter 48A

"Minors

"§ 48A-1. Common law definition of 'minor' abrogated. — The common law definition of minor insofar as it pertains to the age of the minor is hereby repealed and abrogated.

"§ 48A-2.  Age of minors. — A minor is any person who has not reached the age of 18 years."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective only upon certification by the governor of a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in state and local elections to 18 years of age, or in the event the amendment to the Constitution of the United State of America, "providing that the right of citizens who are eighteen years of age to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of age", is certified by the United States Administrator of General Services to have been ratified by the legislatures of at least three-fourths of the States.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1971.