NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 908

SENATE BILL 726

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 110-49 TO PROVIDE FOR LICENSING OF THOSE PROVIDING FULL-TIME CHILD CARE WHETHER OR NOT THE PLACEMENT OF CHILDREN IS INVOLVED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 110-49 as it appears in Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the first paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"No individual, agency, voluntary association, or corporation seeking to establish and carry on any kind of business or organization in this State for the purpose of giving full-time care to children or for the purpose of placing dependent, neglected, abandoned, destitute, orphaned or delinquent children, or children separated temporarily from their parents, shall be permitted to organize and carry on such work without first having secured a written permit from the State Board of Social Services. The said Board shall issue such permit recommending said business or organization only after it has made due investigation of the purpose, character, nature, methods and assets of the proposed business or organization."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 110-49 is hereby further amended by deleting, from the first and second lines in the second paragraph thereof, the phrase "except those exempted in G.S. 108-3, Subdivision (5)", and by inserting in lieu of the phrase thus deleted the following:

"except those exempted in G.S. 108-73, Subsection (c)".

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 19th day of June, 1969.