NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 849

HOUSE BILL 1216

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE PRESERVATION OF THE HOME PLACE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Chapter 275 of the Session Laws of 1981 is amended by relabeling G.S. 108A-55(c) as G.S. 108A-55(d) and adding a new paragraph G.S. 108A-55(c) to read:

"(c)       When determining whether a person has insufficient resources to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health, there shall be excluded from consideration the person's primary place of residence and the land on which it is situated, and in addition there shall be excluded real property contiguous with the person's primary place of residence in which the property tax value is less than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000)."

Sec. 2. Chapter 275 of the Session Laws of 1981 is amended by adding the following sentence after the first sentence in G.S. 108A-77:

"When determining whether a person has sufficient resources to provide necessary medical care, there shall be excluded from consideration the person's primary place of residence and the land on which it is situated, and in addition there shall be excluded real property contiguous with the person's primary place of residence in which the property tax value is less than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000)."

Sec. 3. This act shall become effective October 1, 1981.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of July, 1981.