NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 725

HOUSE BILL 736

 

 

AN ACT TO RATIFY A PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO EXTEND THE RIGHT TO VOTE TO CITIZENS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.

 

Whereas, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring) and proposed the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States, to become valid as a part of the said Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of the several states, in words as follows:

"RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED (TWO-THIRDS OF EACH HOUSE CONCURRING THEREIN), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress:

'ARTICLE ________

'SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

'SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.'" Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  That the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America set out in the preamble to this act be, and the same is, hereby ratified by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  That certified copies of this preamble and act be forwarded by the Governor of this State to the Secretary of State at Washington, to the Presiding Officer of the United States Senate, and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States.

Sec. 3.  That this act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1971.