NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 655

HOUSE BILL 922

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 108-47 RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE CHECKS MADE PAYABLE TO DECEDENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 108-47, as the same appears in Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting from lines 10 and 11 the words "G.S. 28-68 through G.S. 28‑68.3" and substituting therefor the citation "G.S. 28A-25-6".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 108-47, as the same appears in Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"In the event of the death of a recipient of a cash payment service, any check or checks payable to such recipient but not endorsed prior to such recipient's death shall be returned to the issuing agency, made void, and reissued to the provider of the service."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1977.