NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 871

HOUSE BILL 1254

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE STATE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND TO FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING PERSONS NAMED IN ITS REGISTER OF THE BLIND TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND REVENUE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MORE EFFICIENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW RELATING TO DRIVERS' LICENSES AND TAXATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 111-28 as the same appears in the 1966 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes is amended by adding an unnumbered paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"Notwithstanding the above, the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind is authorized to release to the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and the North Carolina Department of Revenue the name and medical records of any person listed in the register of the blind in this State maintained under the provisions of G.S. 111-4. All information and documents released to the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Revenue shall be treated by those Departments as confidential for their use only and shall not be released by them to any person for commercial or political purposes or for any purpose not directly connected with the administration of Chapters 20 and 105 of the General Statutes of this State."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 16th day of June, 1969.