GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 676
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 131E-14.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 131E-14.1. Branch facilities.
Notwithstanding anything in this Article, any county municipality
organized under the provisions of this Article Part or Part C or any
nonprofit corporation which leases or operates a hospital facility pursuant to
an agreement with the municipality may erect, remodel, enlarge, purchase,
finance, and operate branches and related facilities within this State but
outside the boundaries of the county subject to the following limitations:
(1) No moneys derived
from the exercise by the owning county municipality of its power
of taxation shall be expended on facilities located outside its boundaries;
(2) No moneys derived
from the issuance by the owning county municipality of its bonds
or notes shall be expended on facilities located outside its boundaries;
(3) The owning county municipality
shall not possess the power of eminent domain or have the right of
condemnation with respect to hospital facilities located outside its boundaries.
boundaries; and
(4) The power conferred
on counties by G.S. 153A-169 and G.S. 153A-170 to adopt ordinances regulating
the use of county-owned property and parking on county-owned property shall not
extend to hospital facilities located outside its boundaries unless the board
of commissioners of the county in which the facility is located shall by
resolution permit any such ordinance to be applicable within its jurisdiction;
jurisdiction.
(5) The owning
county shall not be deemed liable, by virtue of operating hospital facilities
outside its boundaries, for the cost of medical care of paupers who are legal
residents of some other county;
(6) The
authority granted by this section may not be exercised in any county that has
within its borders four or more incorporated municipalities which qualify to
receive funds under G.S. 136-41.2."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of July, 1994.
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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives