NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 889

HOUSE BILL 1220

AN ACT TO PROTECT PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED OR MENTALLY RETARDED DEPENDENTS BY REQUIRING THEIR PARENTS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT AFTER THE EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 40 of Chapter 14 of the North Carolina General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section, to be designated G.S. 14-322.2, as follows:

"G.S. 14-322.2.  Failure to support handicapped dependent. If any father or mother shall wilfully fail and refuse to provide support for a physically handicapped child or a mentally retarded child who becomes eighteen years of age and who is unable to be self-supporting, then the parent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; failure to provide such support shall be a continuing offense after the eighteenth birthday and after the child reaches his majority until such time as the physically handicapped or mentally retarded dependent is able to become self-supporting."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1969.