NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 933
HOUSE BILL 994

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 12 OF CHAPTER 122 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO REGULATE LAND SUBDIVISION AND OTHERWISE TO CLARIFY ITS REGULATORY JURISDICTION AT JOHN UMSTEAD HOSPITAL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Section 122-95 of Article 12 of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes of North Carolina as amended is hereby amended by adding the following provisions at the end of said Section:
"f.	Regulating the subdivision of land. Such regulation shall be in accordance with the procedures and subject to the limitations set forth in Part 3A of Article 18 of Chapter 160. In applying said part, the North Carolina State Department of Mental Health shall be construed as standing in the place of a municipal legislative body.
"Any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this Section shall apply to any, all or a portion of the original Camp Butner reservation as may be designated by the Department of Mental Health as acquired by the State, including both those areas currently owned and occupied by the State and its agencies and those which may have been leased or otherwise disposed of by the State."
Sec. 2.  Should any clause, Section, or provision of this Act be declared by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the Act as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1965.