NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 185

SENATE BILL 508

 

 

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE MENTAL HEALTH STUDY COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Mental Health Care Study Commission established and structured by 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80 and 1973 Session Laws Chapter 806 is hereby revived and authorized to continue in existence until July 1,1977.

Sec. 2.  The continued Mental Health Care Study Commission shall have all the powers and duties of the original Study Commission as they are necessary to continue the original study, assist in the implementation of the original Study Commission recommendations and plan further activity on the subject of the study.

Sec. 3.  Members of the original Mental Health Care Study Commission shall remain members of the continued Study Commission, but they shall serve at the pleasure of the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment. Members of the General Assembly who are not reelected shall not be disqualified from membership on the continued Study Commission because they are no longer members of the General Assembly, but the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment may replace them and any other member of the Study Commission with new appointees.

Sec. 4.  Members and staff of the continued Mental Health Care Study Commission shall receive the same compensation and expenses as under the original authorization in 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80, and funding for the Study Commission shall be from the same source as authorized in that original resolution.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1975.