NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 1140
HOUSE BILL 487

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-38 RELATING TO PROCEEDINGS IN CASE OF A MENTALLY ILL OR INEBRIATE CITIZEN OF ANOTHER STATE TO RELIEVE COUNTIES OF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 122-38 as the same appears in 1964 Replacement Volume 2C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by rewriting the third paragraph thereof so that the third paragraph reads as follows:
"The cost of such proceedings and conveyance away from the State shall be borne by the State of North Carolina."
Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the Department of Mental Health the sum of $3,000 for the biennium 1971-73 to defray the expenses incurred in compliance with this act.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.