NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 659

HOUSE BILL 1169

 

 

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT A LANDLORD, OWNER, OR AGENT FROM REFUSING TO RENT OR SELL HIS PREMISES TO A VISUALLY HANDICAPPED PERSON BECAUSE HE HAS A GUIDE DOG.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 168-7 is amended by adding at the end thereof:

"No person, firm or corporation shall refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise disallow a visually handicapped person to use any premises for the reason that said visually handicapped person has or will obtain a guide dog for mobility purposes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

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