NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 310

SENATE BILL 355

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 110-118 TO PROVIDE FOR THE COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER THE CUSTODY OF ABUSED CHILDREN SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 110-118(d), as it appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"Pending such juvenile hearing, the hospital, clinic or other similar medical facility;

(1)        may retain temporary physical custody of the child in which event said hospital, clinic, or medical facility

(2)        shall request the director of social services in the county where the child resides to petition the district court in the district where the child resides to award temporary custody of the child to the director for placement with a relative or in a foster home under the supervision of the county department of social services or

(3)        shall request the director of social services in the county where the hospital or other medical facility is located to petition the district court in the district where the hospital or other medical facility is located to award temporary physical custody of the child to the director for placement with a relative or in a foster home under the supervision of the county department of social services.

Upon receipt of such request in (2) or (3), the director of social services shall file such petition without delay."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of May, 1975.