NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 1024
HOUSE BILL 907

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 9 OF CHAPTER 134 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO AUTHORIZE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR STUDENTS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE BOARD OF JUVENILE CORRECTION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 9, Chapter 134 of the General Statutes of North Carolina, as the same appears in the 1964 Replacement Volume 3B, is hereby amended by adding, immediately after G.S. 134-111, a new Section as follows:
"G.S. 134-111.1.  Providing Necessary Medical and Surgical Treatment for Students. The State Board of Juvenile Correction is authorized and directed to provide, through licensed physicians and surgeons, such medical and surgical treatment as is necessary to preserve the life and health of the students. The medical staff of any school, institution, or agency, under the management and control of the State Board of Juvenile Correction, is hereby authorized to perform or cause to be performed, by competent and skillful physicians or surgeons, medical treatment or surgical operations upon any student when such operation is necessary for the physical health of the student. Provided, that no operation shall be performed except as authorized in G.S. 130-191."
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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 14th day of June, 1965.