NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 307

HOUSE BILL 788

 

 

AN ACT TO DELETE REFERENCES TO LOCAL HEALTH OR SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS IN STATUTES DEALING WITH PRISON INMATES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. Article 20 of G.S. Chapter 130 is amended by deleting in the title of the Article the words "of State Institutions".

Sec. 2. G.S. 130-191, as it appears in the 1981 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is amended in line 1 by deleting the words "or charitable hospital or" and in line 4 by deleting the words "mental or".

Sec. 3. G.S. 130-191 is further amended by deleting the last sentence of the first paragraph and substituting therefor the following:

"Any surgical operations on inmates of State penal institutions shall also be subject to the provisions of Article 1A of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes and G.S. 90-21.13 and G.S. 90-21.14."

Sec. 4. The first four lines of G.S. 130-191.1, as it appears in the 1981 Replacement Volume 3B of the General Statutes, are amended by deleting the words "When a board comprised of the Secretary of Correction, the chief medical officer of a prison hospital or penal institution, and a representative of the State or county social services department of the county where the prisoner is confined, shall convene and find" and substituting therefor the following: "When the Secretary of Correction finds".

Sec. 5. G.S. 130-191.1 is further amended by deleting in line 9 the words "made by this board".

Sec. 6. G.S. 130-191.1 is further amended by deleting in lines 11-13 the words "local health director, as defined by G.S. 130-3, or in the event a local health director is not immediately available then the local health director of any adjoining or nearby area," and substituting therefor the words "chief medical officer of the prison hospital or prison institution".

Sec. 7. G.S. 130-191.1 is further amended by adding a new sentence at the end to read as follows:

"Any treatment of self-inflicted injuries shall also be subject to the provisions of G.S. 90-21.13 and 90-21.14."

Sec. 8. G.S. 130-191, as amended above, is hereby transferred to G.S. Chapter 148 to be designated as a new G.S. 148-22.1.

Sec. 9. G.S. 130-191.1, as amended above, is hereby transferred to G.S. Chapter 148 to be designated as a new G.S. 148-46.2.

Sec. 10. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1981.