NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 677

HOUSE BILL 437

AN ACT TO REWRITE G.S. 35-42 TO PROVIDE THAT THE SECRETARY OF THE EUGENICS BOARD SHALL BE AN EMPLOYEE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE AND SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 35-42 as it appears in 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  In the place of the statute repealed by Section 1 of this Act, a new Section is hereby enacted as follows:

"Sec. 35-42.  Secretary of Board and Duties. — The State Commissioner of Public Welfare shall designate an employee of the State Department of Public Welfare as Secretary of the Eugenics Board. The secretary shall perform all duties imposed by the statutes and required by the Eugenics Board."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be effective on and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1969.