NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 190

HOUSE BILL 460

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 111 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES BY DELETING THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF G.S. 111-19 AND CHANGING THE TITLE TO READ "INTER-COUNTY TRANSFER OF RECIPIENTS" AND REWRITING THE PROCEDURE FOR CONTINUING AID TO THE BLIND PAYMENTS TO RECIPIENTS WHO REMOVE FROM ONE COUNTY WITHIN THE STATE TO ANOTHER.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The first paragraph of G.S. 111-19 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  The second paragraph of G.S. 111-19 is hereby rewritten so that G.S. 111-19 shall read as follows:

"G.S. 111-19. Inter-county transfer of recipients. — Any recipient of Aid to the Blind under this Article who moves to another county of this State shall be entitled to receive Aid to the Blind in the county to which he has moved and the board of county commissioners of such county, or its authorized agent, is hereby directed to make the appropriate Aid to the Blind grant to such recipient subject to the rules and regulations of the North Carolina State Commission for the Blind, beginning with the next payment period after such recipient has established settlement in the county to which he has moved by continuously maintaining a residence therein for a period of 90 days. The county from which a recipient moves shall continue to pay aid to such recipient until such time as the recipient becomes qualified to receive aid from the county to which he has moved. The county from which a recipient has moved shall forthwith transfer all necessary records relating to the recipient to the appropriate board of county commissioners, or its authorized agent, of the county to which the recipient has moved immediately upon the recipient becoming qualified to receive aid from such county."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1971.