NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1190

HOUSE BILL 874

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH FOR GRANTS-IN-AID TO PROVIDE A SHELTERED OCCUPATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR CERTAIN MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS AND TO PROVIDE FOR DAY CARE AND RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR CERTAIN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to the Department of Mental Health the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1965 and ending June 30, 1966, and the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1966 and ending June 30, 1967, to be expended to provide a monthly grant-in-aid or subsidy of forty dollars ($40.00) per person to be paid to nonprofit sheltered workshops designated by said Department to encourage sheltered occupational environment for trainable and low educable mentally retarded and the more severely physically handicapped adults, sixteen years of age or over.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 17th day of June, 1965.