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- Public laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly at its session of ...[1929]
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- Date
- 1929
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- ["North Carolina."]
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Public laws and resolutions passed by the General Assembly at its session of ...[1929]
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Guardian to tile
final account and
be discharged,
when
Petition to be
tiled.
Act to be con¬
strued liberally.
Applicable only
to beneficiaries
of Bureau.
Invalid parts of
act not to effect
valid parts.
Conflicting laws
repealed.
Sterilization of
mentally de¬
fective and
f eeble-min ded
inmates of state
institutions.
County to have
charge of steri¬
lization of such
residents in said
county, not in
state institutions.
Proviso.
custody of the veteran so committed. Notice of such pending
proceedings shall be furnished the person to be committed and
his right to appear and defend shall not he denied.
Sec. 17. When a minor ward for whom a guardian has been
appointed under the provisions of this act or other laws of this
state shall have attained his or her majority, and if incompe¬
tent shall be declared competent by the Bureau and the court,
and when any incompetent ward, not a minor, shall be declared
competent by said Bureau and the court, the guardian shall
upon making a satisfactory accounting be discharged upon a
petition filed for that purpose.
Sec. 18. This act shall be construed liberally to secure the
beneficial intents and purposes thereof and shall apply only to
beneficiaries of the Bureau.
Sec. 19. The invalidity of any portion of this act shall not
affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be
given effect without such invalid part.
Sec. 20. All acts and pai-ts of acts inconsistent with any
provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 21. That this act shall be in force and effect from and
after its ratification.
Ratified this the 18th day of February, A. D. 1929.
CHAPTER 34
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STERILIZATION OF
THE MENTALLY DEFECTIVE AND FEEBLE-MINDED
INMATES OF CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITU¬
TIONS OF THE THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. The governing body or responsible head of any
penal or charitable institution supported wholly or in part by
the State of North Carolina, or any sub-division thereof, is
hereby authorized and directed to have the necessary operation
for asexualization or sterilization performed upon any men¬
tally defective or feeble-minded inmate or patient thei'eof, as
may be considered best in the interest of the mental, moral or
physical improvement of the patient or inmate, or for the public
good.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the board of commissionei-s of
any county of North Carolina, at the public cost and expense,
to have the operation performed upon any mentally defective
or feeble-minded l'esident of the county, not an inmate of any
public institution, upon the petition and request of the next kin
or legal guardian of such mentally defective person: Provided,
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