NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 802

SENATE BILL 663

AN ACT AUTHORIZING BOARDS OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO PRIVATE, NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS OFFERING ASSISTANCE TO THE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 153-9 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision thereto as follows:

"(60)    Aid to Sheltered Workshops or other Vocational Rehabilitation Facilities. The board of commissioners of each county is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate funds from sources other than locally levied and collected taxes, and to render other forms of assistance, to private, non-profit, charitable organizations offering work and training activities to the physically or mentally handicapped, such organizations being commonly known as sheltered workshops, provided that the resolution appropriating county funds to such organizations shall specifically state the object to which the funds are to be applied, and the commissioners shall require a periodic accounting for the expenditure of such funds to insure that they are spent for the intended purpose."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1969.