NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 32

SENATE BILL 69

AN ACT TO AMEND THE UNIFORM ANATOMICAL GIFT ACT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF THOSE PERSONS QUALIFIED TO ENUCLEATE EYES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Subsection 9 of G.S. 90-220.1 is repealed.

Sec. 2.  Subsection 8 of G.S. 90-220.1 is renumbered as Subsection 9 and a new Subsection 8 is added to read as follows:

"(8)      'Qualified individual' means:

(a)        an embalmer holding a valid license to practice in this State,

(b)        a physician's assistant approved by and registered with the Board of Medical Examiners pursuant to G.S. 90-18(13),

(c)        a registered or a licensed practical nurse certified by the Board of Nursing pursuant to Article 9 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, or

(d)        a student who is enrolled in an accredited school of medicine operating within this State and who has completed two or more years of a course of study leading to the awarding of a degree of doctor of medicine from such school, and who has completed a course in eye enucleation and has been certified as competent to enucleate eyes by an accredited school of medicine operating within North Carolina."

Sec. 3.  The last two sentences of subsection (d) of G.S. 90-220.4 are deleted, and in their place the following paragraph is added:

"In respect to a gift of an eye, a qualified individual, as defined by G.S. 90-220.1(8), may enucleate eyes for such gift after the proper certification of death by a physician and upon the express direction of any physician other than the one who certified the death of the donor."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of March, 1975.