NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 717

HOUSE BILL 1273

 

 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A UNIFORM GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 108-62, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended and rewritten to read:

"§ 108-62.  Purpose and eligibility. — Assistance may be granted under this Part to persons who would have been eligible under the aid to the aged and disabled category prior to January 1, 1974, but who after such date do not qualify under the Federal Supplemental Security Income Program, including needy spouses, essential persons, certain disabled persons, and those persons needing supplemental payments in boarding homes, rest homes, and convalescent homes for the aged or infirm and those needing attendant care at home. Nothing in this Part should be interpreted so as to preclude any individual county from operating any program of financial assistance using only county funds."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 108-4(4), as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by striking out the word "and" where it appears after the words "federal legislation" and before the words "by Article 2" and substituting the word "or" therefor.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 108-52(a), as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by striking out the words "federal and State appropriations" where they appear in the first sentence of this subsection and substituting the words "federal appropriations or State appropriations, or the combination of both, as applicable," therefor.

Sec. 4.  G.S. 108-63, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by repealing subsection "(c)".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 108-64(c), as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by striking out the first sentence thereof, which reads as follows: "The allotments provided by this section shall be used by the counties entitled to them solely as supplementary funds to increase the general assistance being granted."

Sec. 6.  G.S. 108-65, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the last sentence thereof.

Sec. 7.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.