NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 412

SENATE BILL 538

 

 

AN ACT TO TRANSFER THE BUREAU OF LABOR FOR THE DEAF FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 8 of Chapter 95 of the General Statutes is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  Chapter 168 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Article thereto:

"ARTICLE 2.

"Vocational Rehabilitation.

"§ 168-14.  Vocational rehabilitation services for deaf persons. The Department of Human Resources shall promote the employment of deaf persons in this State. The department shall assist deaf persons whose disability limits employment opportunities in obtaining gainful employment commensurate with their abilities and in maintaining such employment.

The department, in furtherance of these objectives, shall maintain statistics regarding trades and occupations in which deaf persons are employed.

The department shall attempt to employ deaf persons in its vocational rehabilitation services for deaf persons and shall have at least one deaf person so employed."

Sec. 3.  The intent of this act is to transfer the Bureau of Labor for the Deaf from the Department of Labor to the Department of Human Resources as a Type 1 transfer as defined in G.S. 143A-6(a).

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1975.