NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 378

HOUSE BILL 410

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-1.5, RELATING TO THE DIVISIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 122-1.5 is hereby amended to read as follows:

"G.S. 122-1.5.  Divisions of the Department; Deputy Directors. The administration of the Department of Mental Health shall be divided into three (3) separate divisions, (1) Business Administration, (2) Mental Retardation, and (3) Regional Mental Health Services. The Commissioner of Mental Health with the approval of the State Board of Mental Health shall appoint a Deputy Director as head of the Division of Mental Retardation and Deputy Directors as regional heads of the Regional Mental Health Services. The Deputy Directors of Regional Mental Health Services shall be medical doctors duly licensed in North Carolina with approved training and experience in psychiatry. The Deputy Director of the Division of Mental Retardation shall be a medical doctor duly licensed in North Carolina with approved training and experience in psychiatry or pediatrics."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of April, 1965.