NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 469

SENATE BILL 317

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-65.8 SO AS TO CLARIFY THE INTENT OF THE ORIGINAL ACT IN REGARD TO THE COMMITMENT OF CHRONIC ALCOHOLICS BY COURTS HAVING JURISDICTION OVER THEM TO FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection 5 of G.S. 122-65.8 as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is amended by adding after the last sentence of G.S. 122-65.8 Subsection 5 of the following proviso: "Provided that no person acquitted of public drunkenness by reason of chronic alcoholism shall be committed to any facility of the Department of Mental Health by the Court having jurisdiction over him in any manner other than pursuant to the procedure as provided in Subsection (1) above."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of May, 1969.