NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 635

HOUSE BILL 857

 

 

AN ACT TO FURTHER DEFINE THE RIGHTS OF HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 168 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof a new section which shall be designated as G.S. 168-9 and which shall read as follows:

"§ 168-9.  Right to housing. — Each handicapped citizen shall have the same right as any other citizen to live and reside in residential communities, homes, and group homes, and no person or group of persons, including governmental bodies or political subdivisions of the State, shall be permitted, or have the authority, to prevent any handicapped citizen, on the basis of his or her handicap, from living and residing in residential communities, homes, and group homes on the same basis and conditions as any other citizen. Nothing herein shall be construed to conflict with provisions of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1975.