GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1073

SENATE BILL 663

 

AN ACT TO SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZE THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS TO REGULATE GENERAL ANESTHESIA AND PARENTERAL SEDATION BY DENTISTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new section is added to Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, to read:

"§ 90-30.1.  Standards for general anesthesia and parenteral sedation.-The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners may establish by regulation reasonable education, training, and equipment standards for safe administration and monitoring of general anesthesia and parenteral sedation for outpatients in the dental setting.  Regulatory standards may include a permit process for general anesthesia and parenteral sedation by dentists.  The requirements of any permit process adopted under the authority of this section must include provisions that will allow a dentist to qualify for continued use of general anesthesia, if he or she is licensed to practice dentistry in North Carolina and shows the Board that he or she has been utilizing general anesthesia in a competent manner for the five years preceding July 1, 1988, and his or her office facilities pass an on-site examination and inspection by qualified representatives of the Board."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification but shall expire June 30, 1990, and shall have no force and effect after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1988.