GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 274
HOUSE BILL 214

AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE SPOUSAL DEFENSE TO A PROSECUTION FOR RAPE OR SEXUAL OFFENSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 14-27.8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14-27.8.  No defense that victim is spouse of person committing act.
A person may be prosecuted under this Article whether or not the victim is the person's legal spouse at the time of the commission of the alleged rape or sexual offense."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification. Prosecutions for offenses occurring before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of July, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives