article thumbnail

County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Adoption services , which include recruiting and screening adoptive parents and arranging and supervising adoptive placements. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. 594, 607 (2011). However, activities that satisfy the North Carolina Constitution’s “public purpose” requirement are not exclusive emoluments. See Blinson v.