NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 608
HOUSE BILL 728

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO UNDERTAKE PROGRAMS FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DRUG ABUSE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 160A of the General Statutes is amended by inserting in Article 21 a new section as follows:
"§ 160A-493.  Drug abuse programs. — Any city may provide for the prevention and treatment of narcotic, barbituric and other types of drug abuse and addiction through education, medication, medical care, hospitalization, and out-patient housing, and may appropriate the necessary funds therefor."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1973.