NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 905

SENATE BILL 707

 

 

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 159-40 TO INSURE FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY BY NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVING PUBLIC FUNDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 159-40 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 159-40.  Special regulations pertaining to nonprofit corporations receiving public funds. ‑ (a) If a city or county grants or appropriates one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in any fiscal year to a nonprofit corporation or organization, the city or county may require that the nonprofit corporation or organization have an audit performed for the fiscal year in which the funds are received and may require that the nonprofit corporation or organization file a copy of the audit report with the city or county.

(b)        Any nonprofit corporation or organization which receives one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in State funds shall, at the request of the State Auditor, submit to an audit by the office of the State Auditor for the fiscal year in which such funds were received.

(c)        Every nonprofit corporation or organization which has an audit performed pursuant to this section shall file a copy of the audit report with the office of the State Auditor.

(d)        The provisions of this section shall not apply to sheltered workshops or to Adult Development Activity Programs or to private residential facilities for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled or to Developmental Day Care Centers or to any nonprofit corporation or organization whose sole use of public funds is to provide hospital services or operate as a volunteer fire department, rescue squad, ambulance squad, or which operates as a junior college, college or university duly accredited by the southern regional accrediting association."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.