NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1074

HOUSE BILL 1038

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE COUNTIES TO EXPEND NONTAX FUNDS TO ASSIST STATE LICENSED FACILITIES FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The Board of County Commissioners of each county of the State is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate and expend from nontax revenues such amounts as in its discretion may be deemed wise and expedient by way of making a donation to any licensed facility for the mentally retarded, whether publicly or privately owned, and whether located within the borders of such county or not, to assist in providing better and more adequate facilities and treatment for the mentally retarded, when and if, in the opinion of said board, such donation would involve the care which would be available to the residents of such county.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 3rd day of July, 1967.