NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 976

HOUSE BILL 1071

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO OBTAIN AMBULANCE SERVICE WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD, OR TO MAKE A FALSE REQUEST FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1. Obtaining Ambulance Services Without Intending to Pay Therefor. Any person who with the intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services for himself or other persons without intending at the time of obtaining such services to pay a reasonable charge therefor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court. If a person or persons obtaining such services willfully fails to pay for the services within a period of ninety days after request for payment, such failure shall raise a presumption that the services were obtained with the intention to defraud, and with the intention not to pay therefor.

Sec. 2. Making False Ambulance Request. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully obtain or attempt to obtain ambulance service that is not needed, or to make a false request or report that an ambulance is needed. Every person convicted of violating this Section shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days or both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 3. This Act shall apply only to the counties of Buncombe, Haywood and Madison.

Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1965.