NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 505

HOUSE BILL 554

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 153-176.1 RELATING TO HOSPITALIZATION AND MEDICAL CARE OF THE INDIGENT SICK AND AFFLICTED POOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 153-176.1, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence reading as follows: "Authority is hereby granted to the board of commissioners of any county in the State now or hereafter having a population of sixty thousand (60,000) or over and a city within its borders now or hereafter having a population of forty-four thousand (44,000) or over to provide adequate hospitalization, medical care and attention of the indigent sick and afflicted poor of such county or city."; and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Authority is hereby granted to the board of commissioners of any county in the State now or hereafter having a population of sixty thousand (60,000) or over and a city within its borders now or hereafter having a population of thirty thousand (30,000) or over to provide adequate hospitalization, medical care and attention of the indigent sick and afflicted poor of such county or city."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1963.