GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 13 
SENATE BILL 8 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO ACT AS CONTRACTUAL INTERMEDIARY WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST RECOVERY BY COUNTIES OF INTERIM WELFARE PAYMENTS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-139.3 is amended by designating the present section as subsection (a) and by adding a new subsection (b), reading as follows: 
"(b)	The Department is authorized to enter into contracts with and to act as intermediary between any federal government agency and any county of this State for the purpose of assisting the county to recover monies expended by a county-funded financial assistance program; and, as a condition of such assistance, the county shall agree to hold and save harmless the Department against any claims, loss, or expense which the Department might incur under the contracts by reason of any erroneous, unlawful, or tortious act or omission of the county or its officials, agents, or employees." 
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of February, 1983.