NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 974

SENATE BILL 411

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 14 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA TO PROHIBIT THE ACQUISITION AND USE OF INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM PATIENTS IN HOSPITALS FOR FRAUDULENT PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Article 20 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following G.S. 14-118.2, to be numbered G.S. 14-118.3, and to read as follows:

"G.S. 14-118.3.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any officer, agent or other representative of any person, firm or corporation to obtain or seek to obtain from any person while a patient in any hospital information concerning any illness, injury or disease of such patient, other than information concerning the illness, injury or disease for which such patient is then hospitalized and being treated, for a fraudulent purpose, or to use any information so obtained in regard to such other illness, injury or disease for a fraudulent purpose.

"Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, in the discretion of the court."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 28th day of June, 1967.