NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 747

SENATE BILL 729

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR VENDOR AND PROTECTIVE PAYMENTS UNDER PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 108-50 as it appears in Chapter 546 of the Session Laws of 1969 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 108-50.  Protective and vendor payments. — Instead of the use of personal representatives provided for by G.S. 108-49, when necessary to comply with any present or future Federal law or regulation in order to obtain Federal participation in public assistance payments, the payments may be made direct to vendors to reimburse them for goods and services provided the applicants or recipients, and may be made to protective payees who shall act for the applicant or recipient for receiving and managing assistance. Payments to vendors and protective payees shall be made to the extent provided in, and in accordance with, rules and regulations of the State Board of Social Services, which rules and regulations shall be subject to applicable Federal laws and regulations."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be effective on and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of June, 1969.