NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 762

SENATE BILL 615

AN ACT TO DIRECT CLERKS OF THE SUPERIOR COURT TO PAY CLAIMS FOR DOMICILIARY CARE GIVEN TO DECEASED RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS TO THE BLIND AND RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF CHECKS IN PAYMENT OF AWARDS AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE MADE PAYABLE TO BLIND DECEDENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 28A-25-6(f), as previously amended by Chapter 163 of the Session Laws of 1979, is further amended by inserting into the sentence which was added by said Chapter 163, after the words "pursuant to" and before the words "Part 6 of Article 2 of Chapter 108" the following: "G.S. 111-18 and".

Sec. 2.  Chapter 111 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section as follows:

"§ 111-18.1.  Award and assistance checks payable to decedents. — (a) In the event of the death of a recipient of an award made pursuant to G.S. 111-18 during or after the first day of the month for which the award was authorized to be paid, any check or checks in payment of such award made payable to the deceased recipient and not endorsed prior to the payee's death shall be delivered to the clerk of the superior court and be by him administered under the provisions of G.S. 28A-25-6.

(b)        In the event of the death of a recipient of a cash payment service, as defined by regulation of the N.C. Commission for the Blind, which service was rendered as a part of a program of public assistance for the blind or visually handicapped, any check or checks issued for the payment of such service made payable to such recipient, but not endorsed prior to his death, shall be returned to the issuing agency and made void. The issuing agency shall then issue a check payable to the provider of such service for the sum remaining due for this service, not to exceed the amount of said returned and voided check or checks."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of June, 1979.