NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 446

HOUSE BILL 831

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 108-47 TO PROVIDE FOR UNSIGNED ASSISTANCE CHECKS PAYABLE TO DECEDENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO THE CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT TO BE ADMINISTERED BY HIM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 108-47, as it appears in the 1969 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by changing the period at the end of the caption to a semicolon and by inserting immediately after the newly inserted semicolon the words "checks payable to decedents."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 108-47 is hereby further amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof as follows:

"In the event of the death of an assistance recipient during or after the first day of the month for which a grant was previously authorized by the county social services board, any assistance check or checks payable to such recipient not endorsed prior to such recipient's death shall be delivered to the clerk of superior court and by him administered under the provisions of G.S. 28-68 through G.S. 28-68.3."

Sec. 3.  This act shall be effective on and after July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1971.