NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1063

SENATE BILL 108

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OR IMPROVEMENT OF ALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION CENTERS AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE FINANCING THEREOF.

 

WHEREAS, the problem of alcoholism is continually increasing among the citizens of this State; and

WHEREAS, there is an apparent shortage of proper facilities for the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics and alcoholic educational programs; and

WHEREAS, the medical profession and others now agree that alcoholism is a disease; and

WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina in its concern for the physically and mentally ill has in the past tangibly exhibited its concern: Now, therefore, recognizing the State's moral obligation to provide all possible rehabilitation to those who become victims of the disease of alcoholism:

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  From the proceeds of the five cent (5˘) price increase of alcoholic beverages as hereinafter provided, there shall be appropriated by the 1965 General Assembly a sum not to exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for the purpose of creating and establishing an alcoholic rehabilitation center in western North Carolina and an additional sum not to exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) for the purpose of creating an alcoholic rehabilitation center in eastern North Carolina. Also, there shall be appropriated the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) to create, establish or improve an alcoholic rehabilitation center in conjunction with the John Umstead Mental Health Center at Camp Butner, North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  The 1965 General Assembly shall appropriate to the North Carolina Department of Mental Health for the 1965-1967 biennium sufficient sums for the administration of the three alcoholic rehabilitation centers previously referred to in this Act.

Sec. 3.  The Governor of North Carolina shall appoint a Commission of five citizens who shall be residents of the State of North Carolina, who, upon proper and thorough investigation, shall designate the permanent locations of the alcoholic rehabilitation centers in the western and eastern sections of North Carolina, which locations or sites shall be subject to the approval of the Governor and the State Board of Mental Health.

Sec. 4.  In order to finance the establishment, improvement or relocation of alcoholic rehabilitation centers as herein provided, subsection (3) of G.S. 18-39, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Volume IC, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The State Board of Alcoholic Control shall cause the several county and municipal alcoholic boards of control to add to the established retail prices of all alcoholic beverages sold in said county and municipal liquor stores as provided above the sum of five cents (5˘) per bottle on every bottle of alcoholic beverages sold in said stores, which shall be in addition to the retail prices of all alcoholic beverages as set by the State Board of Alcoholic Control, which five cents (5˘) per bottle increase in the retail prices of alcoholic beverages sold by county or municipal liquor stores shall not be subject to the tax levied in G.S. 18-85, but the clear proceeds of the additional retail price of five cents (5˘) per bottle as provided above shall be remitted to the State Treasurer, accompanied by forms or reports to be prescribed and furnished by the State Board of Alcoholic Control, which remittances shall be placed in the general fund. Said reports and remittances of the five cents (5˘) per bottle as herein provided shall be made monthly by the local boards on or before the 15th day of the succeeding month."

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1965.