GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 359
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 122C-55(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) Any area or State
facility or the psychiatric service of the University of North Carolina
Hospitals at Chapel Hill may share confidential information regarding any
client of that facility with any other area or State facility or the
psychiatric service of the University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel
Hill upon a written determination by the responsible professional that such
disclosure is necessary when necessary to coordinate appropriate and
effective care, treatment or habilitation of the client and that when
failure to share this information would be detrimental to the care,
treatment or habilitation of the client; provided however, confidential
information may be shared without a written determination either between State
facilities or between area facilities within the same catchment area. client.
Under the circumstances described in this subsection, the consent of the
client or legally responsible person is not required for this information to be
furnished, and the information may be furnished despite objection by the
client."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of June, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives