NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION
CHAPTER 592
SENATE BILL 362
AN ACT TO MAKE MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES IN G.S. CHAPTER 51 RELATING TO MARRIAGE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 51-1, as it appears in 1976 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is amended on line 6 by deleting the word "man" and substituting therefor the word "husband".
Sec. 2. G.S. 51-6, as it appears in 1976 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is amended on lines 2 and 3 by deleting the language "any two persons, or shall declare them to be man and wife" and substituting therefor the language "a man and woman, or shall declare them to be husband and wife".
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1977.