NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1332

HOUSE BILL 1138

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT COPIES OF MEDICAL RECORDS SHALL BE RECEIVED IN EVIDENCE AS REGULAR BUSINESS RECORDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby added to the General Statutes a section to be designated G.S. 8-44.1 to read as follows:

"§ 8-44.1.  Copies of medical records. — Copies of hospital records in connection with the treatment of any patient or the charges therefor shall be received as evidence, if otherwise admissible, in any court or quasi-judicial proceeding if testified to be authentic by a person in the hospital whose duty it is to have charge or custody of such records."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of April, 1974.