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40 (a) All child support collection and paternity determination services provided = _ under this Article to recipients of public assistance shall be made available to any individual not receiving public assistance in accordance with federal lax ar.d as contractually authorized by the nonrecipient., upon proper application and payment of a nonrefundable application fee of ten dollars (510.00). (b) Repealed by Session Laws 1989, c. 490. bl) In cases in which a public assistance debt which accrued pu.s;:ant w G.S. 110-135 remains unrecovered, support payments shall be trans;-mitre to the Department of Human Resources for appropriate distribution. Wher s.-r-%ices a.--- terminated and all costs and any public assistance debts have been sat-stied, the sup ort payment shall be redirected to the client. Actions or proceedings to establish, enforce, or modify a duty of support or establish paternity as initiated under this Article shall be brought in the name of the county or State agency on behalf of the public assistance recipient or nonrecipient client. Collateral disputes between a custodial parent and noncustodial parent, involving visitation, custody and similar issues, shall be considered only in separate proceedings from actions initiated under this Article. The attorney representing the designated representative of programs under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act shall be deemed attorney of record only for proceedings under this Article, and not for the separate proceedings. No attorney/client relationship shall be considered to -- _ have been created between the attorney who represents the child support enforcement agency and any-.person by virtue of the action of the attorney in providing the services required.- (cl) The Department is hereby authorized to use the electronic and print media in attempting to locate absent and deserting parents. Due diligence must be taken to ensure that the information used is accurate or has been verified. Print media shall be under no obligation or. duty, except that of good faith, to anyone to verify the .correctness of any information furnished to- it by the Department or county departments of social services. (d) Any fee imposed by the North Carolina Department.of Revenue or the Secretary of the Treasury to cover their costs of withholding for neft 74ZFDG non- Work First arrearages certified for the collection of past due support from State or federal income tax refunds-shall-be-borne-by-the client by deducting-the fee from the - amount collected. Any income tax refund offset amounts which are subsequently determined to have been incorrectly withheld and distributed to a client, and which must be refunded by the State to a responsible parent or the nondebtor spouse, shall constitute a debt to the State owed by the client." Section 12.29. G.S. 111-21 reads as rewritten: " "§ 111-21. Disqualifications for relief. No aid to needy blind persons shall be given under the provisions of this Article to any individual for any period with respect to which he is receiving aid under the laws of North Carolina providing Work First Family Assistance and/or relief for the aged, an d/or aid for the permanently and totally disabled." SUBPART C. STATUTORY TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGES RELATING TO THE ABOLISENT OF THE COMNIISSION ON THE FAMILY. Section 12.30. G.S. 1-43-318.14A(a) reads as rewritten: "(a) Except as provided in subsection (e) below, all official meetings of commissions, committees, and standing subcommittees of the General Assembly (including, without limitation, joint committees and study committees), shall be. held Paze 284 Senate Bill 352