NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1178

SENATE BILL 516

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-72 SO AS TO CLARIFY THE SECTION CONCERNING THE LICENSING OF CERTAIN NONMEDICAL PRIVATELY-OPERATED HOMES AND OTHER NONMEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 122-72(a) is hereby amended by changing the period appearing after the word "Health" in line four thereof to a comma and adding the following words and punctuation: "or from the State Board of Public Welfare in accordance with subsection (e) of this Section."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 122-72(a) is further amended by inserting the following words immediately following the word "Health" and immediately preceding the word "shall" in line eight thereof: "or from the State Board of Public Welfare in accordance with subsection (e) of this Section".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 122-72(e) is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(e)       The authority to license nonmedical privately-operated homes or other nonmedical institutions (including religious facilities) for mentally ill persons, mentally retarded persons, and inebriates shall be the responsibility of the State Board of Public Welfare, and in such cases, in construing the provisions of subsections (b), (c) and (d) herein, the words 'State Board of Public Welfare' shall be substituted for every reference to the Department of Mental Health or the Board of Mental Health."

Sec. 4.  This Act shall not apply where said homes or other nonmedical institutions or facilities care for no more than four persons, all of whom are under the supervision of the United States Veterans Administration.

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.