NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1224

HOUSE BILL 1773

AN ACT RELATING TO REGULATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  For the purposes of transferring the responsibility for ambulance regulation from the Commission for Health Services to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, the following amendments to Article 26 of Chapter 130 of the General Statutes, as it appears in Volume 3B of the 1973 Cumulative Supplement, are hereby made:

(1)        The words "Commission for Health Services" are hereby deleted and the words "North Carolina Medical Care Commission" are inserted in lieu thereof in lines 7 and 8 of G.S. 130-230(b), in lines 1 and 2 of G.S. 130‑232(a), in line 5 of G.S. 130-232(b), in line 1 of G.S. 130-233(b), and in line 8 of G.S. 130-233(c);

(2)        The words and punctuation "Department, with the approval of the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council," are hereby deleted and the words "North Carolina Medical Care Commission" are inserted in lieu thereof on lines 5 and 6 of G.S. 130-233(a); and

(3)        The second sentence in G.S. 130-233(b) is hereby deleted.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-508, as it appears in Volume 3C of the 1973 Interim Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:

"The North Carolina Medical Care Commission is authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations to carry out the purpose of this Article and Article 26 of Chapter 130 of the General Statutes of North Carolina. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted with the advice of the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council. All rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this Article heretofore adopted by the State Board of Health or the Commission for Health Services shall remain in full force and effect until repealed or superseded by action of the North Carolina Medical Care Commission."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 143B-165 is hereby amended by adding a new subdivision (9) as follows:

"(9)      The Commission shall have the power and duty to adopt rules and regulations with regard to emergency medical services in accordance with the provisions of Article 26 of Chapter 130 and Article 56 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes of North Carolina."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.