14B NCAC 11C .0304      SOLICITATION OF FUNDS AND JUVENILE PUBLICITY

(a)  Juveniles and their families served by any program funded by the Department shall not be required to raise or solicit funds for any agency. They may, however, organize or participate in fund raising activities on a voluntary basis. Individual juveniles may participate with written parental permission.

(b)  Pictures or any other means of identifying children may not be used in public relations efforts for the program, unless a written statement of permission is obtained, signed by the child and either a parent or legal guardian.

(c)  No juvenile shall be coerced or pressured into acknowledging in public his treatment at the agency or his gratitude for the treatment.

History Note:        Authority G.S. 143B-516(b)(4); 143B-516(b)(5); 143B-516(b)(9);

Temporary Adoption Eff. July 15, 2002;

Eff. April 1, 2003;

Transferred from 28 NCAC 03A .0304 Eff. June 1, 2013;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. January 9, 2018.