NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1050

SENATE BILL 408

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF TWO PILOT COMMUNITY COMPLEXES, SO AS TO PROVIDE DAY CARE, RESIDENTIAL CARE AND OTHER SERVICES TO MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  (a) To provide day care, residential care and other services beneficial to and necessary for the continued care of mentally retarded children, adults and their families, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Department of Mental Health the sum of one hundred fifty thousand forty dollars ($150,040) to pay the State of North Carolina's share (being twenty-two per cent (22%)) of construction costs to build two community mental retardation complex facilities on adequate sites to be provided either by the county or city wherein the same may be located or by both such county or city as determined by the Department of Mental Health and the Medical Care Commission. Said one hundred fifty thousand forty dollars ($150,040) hereby appropriated is appropriated upon the following conditions:

(1)        That sixteen per cent (16%) of the construction costs of said facilities shall be provided and paid by the county or city or both by the county and city wherein each such facility shall be located.

(2)        That such county or city or both such county and city shall at its or their own cost and expense provide an adequate site for each such facility in addition to paying said portion of the construction costs, which site or sites shall be as determined by the Department of Mental Health and the Medical Care Commission.

(3)        That sixty-two per cent (62%) of said construction costs shall be provided and paid from funds made available pursuant to Part C of Public Law 88-164 enacted by the 88th Congress, October 31, 1963.

(b)        One such facility shall be located in Mecklenburg County and the other in Guilford County as may be determined by the North Carolina Department of Mental Health, with the advice of the North Carolina Council on Mental Retardation, the Medical Care Commission and a panel of three out-of-state consultants on mental retardation who shall be selected by the North Carolina Council on Mental Retardation.

(c)        The work carried on in each such facility shall be administered, supervised and executed jointly by the State of North Carolina acting through the Department of Mental Health and a local Board to be known as a "local mental health authority" appointed by the county commissioners of the county or the governing board of the municipality in which each such facility is located, or by both such boards, upon recommendation of the Council on Mental Retardation of each such county, or of each such county and municipality.

Sec. 2.  For the operation of said facilities or complexes there is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund to the State Department of Mental Health for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1968, the sum of one hundred twelve thousand forty-eight dollars ($112,048) which shall be budgeted as to each of said facilities for the purposes set forth in this bill in such manner as the Budget Division of the Department of Administration may direct.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of July, 1967.