GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-177
HOUSE BILL 625
AN ACT to rename Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services facilities and to make other conforming and statutory changes.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 122C-181(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 122C-181. Secretary's jurisdiction over State facilities.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary shall operate the following facilities:
(1) For the mentally
ill:Psychiatric Hospitals:
a. Cherry Hospital;Hospital.
b. Dorothea
Dix Hospital; Hospital.
c. John
Umstead Hospital; and Hospital.
d. Broughton Hospital;
andHospital.
(2) For the mentally
retarded:Developmental Centers:
a. Caswell Center;Developmental
Center.
b. O'Berry
Center;
b1. J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center.
c. Murdoch Center;Developmental
Center.
d. Western
Carolina Center; and
e. Black
Mountain Center; and
(3) For substance
abusers:Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers:
a. Walter B.
Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center at Greenville;Center.
b. Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Treatment Center at John Umstead Hospital; and
c. Julian F.
Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center; andCenter.
d. R.J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center.
(4) As special care
facilities:Neuro-Medical Treatment Centers:
a. North
Carolina Special Care Center;
b. Whitaker
School; and
c. Wright
School.
d. Black Mountain Neuro-Medical Treatment Center.
e. O'Berry Neuro-Medical Treatment Center.
f. Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center.
(5) Residential Programs for Children:
a. Whitaker School.
b. Wright School."
SECTION 2. G.S. 122C-181(a)(1), as amended by Section 1 of this act, reads as rewritten:
"(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary shall operate the following facilities:
(1) Psychiatric Hospitals:
a. Cherry Hospital.
a1. Central Regional Hospital.
b. Dorothea
Dix Hospital.
c. John
Umstead Hospital.
d. Broughton Hospital."
SECTION 3. G.S. 122C-430.30 reads as rewritten:
"Part 2A. Broughton Hospital Joint Security Force.
"§ 122C-430. Joint security force.
The Secretary may designate one or more special police officers
who shall make up a joint security force to enforce the law of North Carolina
and any ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to G.S. 143-116.6 or
G.S. 143-116.7 or pursuant to the authority granted the Department by any
other law on the territory of the Broughton Hospital, North Carolina School for
the Deaf, Deaf at Morganton (K-12), Western Regional Vocational
Rehabilitation Facility, Western Carolina Center, J. Iverson Riddle
Developmental Center, and the surrounding grounds and land adjacent to
Broughton Hospital allocated to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services, all in Burke County. After taking the oath of office for law
enforcement officers as set out in G.S. 11-11, these special police
officers have the same powers as peace officers now vested in sheriffs within
the territory embraced by the named facilities. These special police officers
may arrest persons outside the territory of the named institutions but within
the confines of Burke County when the person arrested has committed a criminal
offense within that territory for which the officers could have arrested the
person within that territory, and the arrest is made during the person's
immediate and continuous flight from that territory."
SECTION 4. G.S. 108A-101(m) reads as rewritten:
"(m) The word
"neglect" refers to a disabled adult who is either living alone and
not able to provide for himself or herself the services which are
necessary to maintain his the person's mental or physical health
or is not receiving services from his the person's caretaker.
A person is not receiving services from his caretaker if, among other things
and not by way of limitation, he the person is a resident of one
of the State-owned hospitals for the mentally ill,State-owned
psychiatric hospitals listed in G.S. 122C-181(a)(1), centers for
the mentally retarded or North Carolina Special Care Center the State-owned
Developmental Centers listed in G.S. 122C-181(a)(2), or the State-owned
Neuro-Medical Treatment Centers listed in G.S. 122C-181(a)(3), he the
person is, in the opinion of the professional staff of that hospital or
center,State-owned facility, mentally incompetent to give his consent
to medical treatment, he the person has no legal guardian
appointed pursuant to Chapter 35A, or guardian as defined in G.S. 122C-3(15),
and he the person needs medical treatment."
SECTION 5. Section 2 of this act becomes effective when the Dorothea Dix Hospital is closed and is no longer serving psychiatric patients. The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2007.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 8:00 a.m. this 5th day of July, 2007