NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 729

SENATE BILL 777

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 108-77 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR CATEGORY LICENSING OF FAMILY CARE HOMES AND HOMES FOR THE AGED.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 108-77, as the same appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is amended by adding the following sentences at the end of subsection (a) thereof:

"For licensing purposes, the homes heretofore described as rest homes and convalescent homes for persons who are aged shall be divided into two categories. The first category shall be licensed as family care homes and may be occupied by no more than five persons being served. The second category shall be licensed as homes for the aged and may be occupied by six or more persons being served. The structure of a family care home may be no more than two stories in height; provided, however, that none of the aged or physically infirm persons being served in a family care home may be housed on the second floor of such home."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1975.