GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

S.L. 1997-280
HOUSE BILL 101

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TIME FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES TO ADMINISTER THE SERVICES OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA AUTHORITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Notwithstanding S.L. 1997-7, the Department of Human Resources may continue to administer the services of the Tri-County Area Authority in accordance with G.S. 122C-125.1 on behalf and at the request of the board of county commissioners of one or more of the counties that constitute the Tri-County Area Authority.  The extension granted under this section shall be for a period not to exceed three calendar months commencing July 1, 1997, and shall be for the sole purpose of allowing one or more of the counties that constitute the Tri-County Area Authority to assess the feasibility of combining with another existing area authority.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 3rd day of July, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 10:25 a.m. this 9th day of July, 1997