GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 595
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 44-51.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 44-51.4.
Attachment or garnishment for county or city ambulance service. or
county or city supported ambulance service.
Whenever ambulance services are provided by a county, by a
county-franchised ambulance service supplemented by county funds, or by a
municipally owned and operated ambulance service or by an ambulance service
supplemented by municipal funds and a recipient of such ambulance services
or one legally responsible for the support of a recipient of such services
fails to pay charges fixed for such services for a period of 90 days after the
rendering of such services, the county or municipality providing the ambulance services
services, or providing financial support to the ambulance service, may
treat the amount due for such services as if it were a tax due to the county or
municipality and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of
attachment and garnishment proceedings as set out in G.S. 105-368."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of July, 1991.
───────────────────
James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
───────────────────
Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives