NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 496

HOUSE BILL 906

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF "RESIDENT" FOR PURPOSES OF QUALIFYING FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 108-24(7), as the same appears in Part I of Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(7)      'Resident' is a person who is living in North Carolina voluntarily with the intention of making his home in the State and not for a temporary purpose. A child is a resident of North Carolina if he is living in the State other than on a temporary basis."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1979.