NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 900

SENATE BILL 756

 

 

AN ACT TO UPDATE THE TITLES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE MENTAL HEALTH COUNCIL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 122-105, as it appears in the 1967 Supplement of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 122-105.  Creation of Council; membership; chairman. There is hereby created a Mental Health Council to be composed of the following persons: The Commissioner of Mental Health, the Chairman of the North Carolina Board of Mental Health, the Commissioner of Public Welfare, the Chief of the Psychological Services Section of the State Department of Public Welfare, the State Health Director, the Chief of the Mental Retardation and Developmental Evaluation Program of the North Carolina State Board of Health, a representative of the North Carolina Association of Clerks of Court, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Commissioner of the State Department of Correction, the Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Public Instruction, a representative of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, a dentist licensed to practice in North Carolina appointed by the Governor, a representative of the North Carolina Neuropsychiatric Association, a representative of the North Carolina Mental Health Association, a representative of the Department of Psychiatry of each of the four-year medical schools in the State, a representative of the North Carolina Psychological Association, a representative of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service, a representative of the State Congress of Parents and Teachers, a representative of the Eugenics Board, the Commissioner of Juvenile Correction, and the Director of the Special Education Section, Division of Instructional Services, North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. The Mental Health Council is hereby empowered to invite additional organizations to name representatives to the Council."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1969.