NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 638

HOUSE BILL 512

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR INCENTIVE PAYMENTS TO DOCTORS WHO WILL PRACTICE IN MEDICALLY DEPRIVED AREAS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund for the fiscal year 1973-74, in addition to any other sums appropriated by this General Assembly for the purpose herein specified, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission to be used, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Medical Care Commission, for a pilot incentive program to any person or persons licensed without restriction to practice medicine under Chapter 90 of the General Statutes who will practice medicine in an area or areas assigned to them and considered by the Medical Care Commission to be without adequate medical services.

Sec. 2.  Any portion of this appropriation found to be unusable for the purpose stated herein shall be used by the Medical Care Commission for the purpose described in Article 13 of Chapter 131 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.