NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1361

HOUSE BILL 1852

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 90-109 TO REQUIRE LICENSING OF TELEPHONE CRISIS SERVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-109, as the same appears in Volume 2C of the 1973 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a)       Any person other than a practitioner, who holds himself out to the public, or any part of it, as being a drug treatment facility, or being able or available to treat, give shelter or comfort to, including telephone crisis services (hotlines), or who proposes to do any of the foregoing to or for any person using, under the influence of, or experiencing the effects of a controlled substance, included in Schedules I through VI of this Article shall first be licensed by the North Carolina Drug Authority as a drug treatment facility."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.