NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 538

HOUSE BILL 921

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMPOSITION OF GOVERNING BOARDS OF HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 57 of the General Statutes is amended by adding the following new section to read:

"§57-2.1.  Members of governing boards. — (a) For the purpose of this section the words 'board of directors' includes the board of directors, trustees, or other governing board.

(b)        The board of directors of each hospital service corporation subject to the provisions of this Article shall include persons who are representative of its subscribers and the general public. Less than one-half of the directors of any such corporation shall be persons who are licensed to practice medicine in this State or who are paid directors or employees of a corporation organized for hospital purposes."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 9th day of May, 1979.