NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 339

SENATE BILL 352

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 115-166 BY EXEMPTING FROM THE GENERAL COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE LAW, UPON CERTAIN CONDITIONS, A CHILD AFFLICTED BY MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, OR PHYSICAL INCAPACITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 115-166 by adding a new proviso at the end thereof which shall read as follows:

"Provided, further, that any child which is afflicted by mental, emotional, or physical incapacities so as to make it unlikely that such child substantially profit by instruction given in the public schools, he or she need not be presented for enrollment upon presentation to the superintendent of city or county schools of evidence that medical, social, psychological and educational evaluation has been made showing that such child could not substantially profit by instruction in the public schools."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of April, 1969.