NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 967

SENATE BILL 519

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT AN ADJUDICATION OF DELINQUENCY OF A CHILD WILL NOT FORFEIT THE CHILD'S CITIZENSHIP.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-286 is hereby amended by adding after the second paragraph a paragraph to read as follows:

"Any adjudication or disposition of a juvenile hearing shall not have the effect of forfeiting any of the child's citizenship rights."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.