NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 110

HOUSE BILL 104

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR REGULATION OF LOCAL HEALTH SERVICES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130-9 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (g):

"(g)       The State Board of Health upon consultation with a Public Health Standards Advisory Committee to be composed of three Local Health Directors, three Local Board of Health Chairmen, and three County Commissioners (which Commissioners shall be chosen from a list of five persons recommended by the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners), all to be appointed by the State Health Director, shall have power, in the best interests of the public health, to establish reasonable standards governing the nature and scope of public health services rendered by local health departments. The Board may provide financial support to units complying with these standards."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of March, 1973.