NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1005

HOUSE BILL 1749

 

AN ACT TO EMPOWER GRANVILLE HOSPITAL TO USE ATTACHMENT AND GARNISHMENT PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTING UNPAID BILLS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Whenever hospital services are provided by Granville Hospital and a recipient of such services fails to pay the charges fixed for such services for a period of 120 days after demand is made for the rendering of such services, the Hospital may treat the amount due for such services as if it were a tax due to the County of Granville and may attach wages or other compensation, rents, bank deposits or any other intangible property and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of attachment and garnishment proceedings as provided in G.S. 105-364 and G.S. 105-368.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of March, 1974.