NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 985

HOUSE BILL 1709

AN ACT TO DEFINE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR PURPOSES OF G.S. 160A-492 APPLICABLE TO THE CITY OF DURHAM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 160A-492 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to follow the second paragraph thereof, said new paragraph to read as follows:

"For the purposes of this section, a 'community action program' is a community based and operated program that includes or is designed to include a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on the causes of poverty in the community; such a program includes the planning of responses to causes of poverty, coordinating existing public and private responses, initiating and supporting new projects to combat poverty, and encouraging participation by members of the community in development of programs and projects affecting their interests. A 'manpower development program' is a program of occupational training for the economically disadvantaged, unemployed, and under-employed and may include, by way of illustration but not limitation, efforts to acquaint eligible persons with the availability of training; assessment of individual needs, potentialities, and interests; counseling and provision of training, including on-the-job training; allowances for training, and for transportation, subsistence, and other expenses while training; supportive services; and development of information on the labor market and its activities.

Sec. 2. This act shall apply only to the City of Durham.

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of March, 1974.