NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 462

SENATE BILL 845

 

 

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SANATORIUM TO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL AND OTHER PURPOSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The title to Article 9, Chapter 131, as the same appears in Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read:

"Eastern North Carolina Hospital."

Sec. 2.  The words "Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis" wherever the same appear in Article 9. Chapter 131, Volume 3B of the General Statutes, are hereby deleted and the following substituted in lieu thereof:

"Eastern North Carolina Hospital."

Sec. 3.  Article 9, Chapter 131, as the same appears in Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 131-78.1.  Treatment of related diseases. — Eastern North Carolina Hospital, in addition to the power and authority vested in it for the treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, is authorized to accept and treat patients afflicted with pulmonary and other chronic diseases to the same extent as it now accepts and treats persons afflicted with tuberculosis."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1973.