NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 739

HOUSE BILL 1401

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE IDENTITY OF THE LICENSING AUTHORITY FOR MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES.

Whereas, there is some discrepancy between G.S. 122-35.33, G.S. 122-58.4, G.S. 122-58.8, and Article 10, Chapter 122 as to the identity of the licensing agency for community mental health facilities and public or private mental health facilities; and

Whereas, the Division of Mental Health Services is a unit within the Department of Human Resources; and

Whereas, it is desired to have uniformity in licensing of facilities of this nature by authorizing the Department of Human Resources, or such unit as it may administratively specify, to issue these types of licenses; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 122-58.4(c), as it appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the words "Division of Mental Health Services of the" where they appear in line 9 of such subsection.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 122-58.8(b), as it appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the words "Division of Mental Health Services" where they appear in line 5 of such subsection and substituting the words "Department of Human Resources" therefor.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1977.