GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 268
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 122C-251(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) Except as provided in subsections (f) and (g) or in G.S. 122C-408(b), transportation between counties under the involuntary commitment proceedings of this Article for admission to a 24-hour facility shall be provided by the county where the respondent is taken into custody. Transportation between counties under the involuntary commitment proceedings of this Article for respondents held in 24-hour facilities who have requested a change of venue for the district court hearing shall be provided by the county where the petition for involuntary commitment was initiated. Transportation between counties under the involuntary commitment proceedings of this Article for discharge of a respondent from a 24-hour facility shall be provided by the county of residence of the respondent. However, a respondent being discharged from a facility may use his own transportation at his own expense."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1987.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 1987.