NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1213

HOUSE BILL 1940

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 108-45 TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF LISTS OF RECIPIENTS OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OR SOCIAL SERVICES FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 108-45 as the same appears in the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes is amended by adding thereto a new subsection (c) immediately following subsection (b), such new subsection to read as follows:

"(c)       Any listing of recipients of benefits under any financial assistance or social services program compiled by or used for official purposes by a county board of social services or a county department of social services shall not be used as a mailing list for political purposes. This prohibition shall apply to any list of recipients of benefits of any federal, State, county or mixed financial assistance or social services program. Further, this prohibition shall apply to the use of such listing by any person, organization, corporation, or business, including but not limited to public officers or employees of federal, State, county, or other local governments, as a mailing list for political purposes. Any violation of this section shall be punishable as a general misdemeanor."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.