GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 1051
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Whenever hospital services are provided by Catawba Memorial Hospital or Alexander County Hospital and a recipient of the services fails to pay the charges fixed for the services for a period of 180 days after demand is made for the rendering of the payment for the services, the hospital may treat the amount due for the services as if it were a tax due to Catawba County or Alexander County as the case may be and may attach wages or other compensation, rents, bank deposits, or any other intangible property and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of attachment and garnishment proceedings as provided in G.S. 105-364 and G.S. 105-368.
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1984.