NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 650

SENATE BILL 337

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE WITHHOLDING OF FUNDS FROM LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH UNITS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 122 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated G.S. 122-35.23 to read as follows:

"§ 122-35.23.  Withholding of funds prohibited. — No funds otherwise available for any county, municipal, or other local mental health department shall be withheld or diminished because of failure or refusal of such local mental health department to join an area or regional mental health district."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May. 1973.