NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 458

HOUSE BILL 649

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND 90-216.6 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED BODIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-216.6, as the same now appears in the 1975 Supplement to Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (h) to read as follows:

"Nothing in this Article shall require the officers, employees or agents of a county to notify the commission regarding the bodies of minors who were in the custody of the county at the time of death and for whose burial the county will arrange. In the absence of notification, the expenses of the burial shall be a charge upon the county having custody."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1977.