NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 753

HOUSE BILL 798

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 130‑95 RELATING TO VENEREAL DISEASE REPORTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130‑95 is hereby amended by rewriting the Section to read as follows:

"Sec. 130‑95.  Physicians and others to report venereal disease cases or positive laboratory tests for venereal disease. Any physician or other person responsible for diagnosis or treatment of a patient with venereal disease, or any superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary, or charitable institution in which there is a patient or inmate with a venereal disease, or laboratory performing a positive laboratory test for venereal disease, shall make a report of such case or positive laboratory test for venereal disease to the local health director in such form and manner as the State Board of Health shall direct, and shall cooperate with the State Board of Health and local boards of health in preventing the spread of venereal diseases."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1961.