NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 813

HOUSE BILL 710

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 5 OF CHAPTER 122 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY DISORDERED PERSONS TO PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 5 of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended by adding a new Section thereto to follow G.S. 122-72, to be numbered G.S. 122‑72.1, and to read as follows:

"§ 122-72.1.  Psychiatric Services in General Hospitals. The term 'private hospital' as used in this Article shall include psychiatric services in general hospitals licensed by the Medical Care Commission, except that the provisions of G.S. 122-72 relating to licensing and reporting shall not apply to the psychiatric services in general hospitals; provided, however, that no mentally disordered or inebriate person is to be committed to a general hospital licensed by the Medical Care Commission unless such hospital has adequate facilities and qualified personnel for the proper observation, care and treatment of such person and the hospital director agrees to accept such person."

Sec. 2.  Article 5 of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is further amended by deleting the words "this private hospital" appearing in line five of G.S. 122-79, and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "the treatment of the alleged mentally disordered person or inebriate".

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1963.