NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 642
HOUSE BILL 723

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-41 RELATING TO EXPENSES TO BE PAID BY THE COUNTY OF RESIDENCE OF MENTALLY ILL PATIENTS OR INEBRIATES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 122-41 is hereby amended by adding at the end of said Section the following:
"The county of residence of the alleged mentally ill patient or inebriate may recover the cost of the examination and hospitalization proceedings of such mentally ill patient or inebriate if said mentally ill patient or inebriate has sufficient estate or property to bear the cost of such examination and hospitalization."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of May, 1965.