NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 774

SENATE BILL 715

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 122-63.1 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE THE CLERK TO INVOLUNTARILY COMMIT PERSONS DIRECTLY TO STATE HOSPITALS IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 122-63.1, as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement of Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting immediately following the words "rules and regulations of State agencies." in the last sentence of the first paragraph the following:

"Provided further, that in the event commitment to the designated local mental health center or other facility as specified herein cannot be made due to space being unavailable or for any other reason, the clerk upon finding as facts the reason or reasons for the refusal of such center or facility to admit such person is hereby authorized to commit such person directly to the appropriate State hospital."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.