GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 470

HOUSE BILL 956

 

AN ACT TO ENABLE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA'S LIFEGUARDIANSHIP COUNCIL TO CLAIM OTHERWISE UNCLAIMED BODIES FOR BURIAL OR OTHER HUMANE AND CARING DISPOSITION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 130A-415 is amended by rewriting the catch line to read:  "Unclaimed bodies; bodies claimed by the Lifeguardianship Council of the Association for Retarded Citizens of North Carolina; disposition.-".

Sec. 2.  G.S.130A-415 is further amended by adding a new subsection to the end to read:

"(i)       In addition to the other duties of the Commission of Anatomy, when the Commission of Anatomy is notified by the Lifeguardianship Council of the Association of Retarded Citizens of North Carolina, Inc., that the Council intends to claim a body, the Commission shall release the body to the Council.  The Lifeguardianship Council shall notify the Commission of Anatomy within 24 hours after death of its intent to claim a body for burial or other humane and caring disposition."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 1987.