NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 197

HOUSE BILL 474

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 130-275(a)(l) TO CLARIFY THE GROUNDS ON WHICH A PENALTY CAN BE LEVIED AGAINST A NURSING HOME.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 130-275(a)(1) is rewritten to read:

"(1)      Which fails to comply with either the entire section of patients' rights listed in G.S. 130-266 or with any of these rights, the failure to comply with which endangers the health, safety or welfare of a patient."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1981.