NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 739

HOUSE BILL 655

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 3 OF CHAPTER 8 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO PROVIDE THAT COPIES OF PUBLIC RECORDS ON FILE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, WHEN PROPERLY CERTIFIED, SHALL BE AS COMPETENT EVIDENCE AS THE ORIGINALS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 8‑34 is hereby amended by deleting the word "or" following the words "Attorney General" in line 4, and inserting a comma in lieu thereof, and by inserting, following the words and punctuation "Adjutant General," in line 4 the following words and punctuation "or the State Department of Archives and History,".

Sec. 2.  This Act shall not apply to pending litigation.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1961.