NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 581

HOUSE BILL 319

 

 

AN ACT TO DISQUALIFY FROM SERVICE ON THE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO COULD PROFIT FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-158 as the same appears in Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby amended on lines 7 through 21 by deleting the third through the seventh sentences beginning with the words "Four of the" and ending with the words "representation on the Commission for the Blind." and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"No physician, no optometrist, no optician, no oculist, nor any other person who receives services or funds regulated by the commission shall be qualified to serve on the Commission for the Blind. Any person who is presently a member of the commission and is disqualified by reason of the preceding sentence shall be deemed to have resigned his position on the commission. The Governor shall appoint a successor for the balance of the unexpired term. At all times at least two members of the commission shall be persons who are visually handicapped to the minimum extent of being legally blind."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1977.