NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 671
HOUSE BILL 468

AN ACT TO RESTRICT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS LAUNDRY SERVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Laundry services performed by the Department of Corrections may be provided only for agencies and instrumentalities of the State which are supported by State funds and for county or municipally controlled and supported hospitals presently being served by the Department of Corrections, or for which services have been contracted or applied for in writing, as of the effective date of this act.
Such services shall be limited to wet-washing, drying and ironing of flatwear or flatgoods such as towels, sheets and bedding, linens and those uniforms prescribed for wear by such institutions and further limited to only flatgoods or apparel owned, distributed or controlled entirely by such institutions and shall not include processing by any dry-cleaning method; provided, however, those garments and items presently being serviced by wet-washing, drying and ironing may in the future, at the election of the Department of Corrections, be processed by a dry-cleaning method.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on and after May 22, 1973.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.