NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 48

HOUSE BILL 55

 

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE PUBLIC WELFARE LAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE OPERATION OF NURSING HOMES AND BOARDING HOMES BY WELFARE OFFICIALS AND THEIR RELATIVES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (b) of G.S. 108-9, as the same appears in the 1960 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(b)      No payment of any public welfare or public assistance funds derived from any source, Federal, State, or local, shall be made for the care of any person in any nursing home or home for the aged or infirm owned or operated in whole or in part by any of the following individuals;

(1)        A member of the State Board of Public Welfare, of any county board of public welfare, or of any board of county commissioners;

(2)        Any official or employee of the State Department of Public Welfare or of any county department of public welfare;

(3)        A parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother or sister of any person designated in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection;

(4)        A spouse of any person designated in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection;

(5)        A spouse of a parent, child, brother, or sister of any person designated in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 5th day of March, 1965.