NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 455

HOUSE BILL 811

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR APPOINTMENT OF A CITIZEN RATHER THAN A COMMISSIONER TO A SINGLE-COUNTY AREA MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 122-35.40(b)(1) is amended by adding the following language before the semicolon:

", except that in a single-county area mental health authority the board of commissioners may instead appoint any resident of the county."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of April, 1979.