GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 773

HOUSE BILL 767

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 90-108 TO PROHIBIT EMBEZZLEMENT OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES BY EMPLOYEES OF PRACTITIONERS AND REGISTRANTS, AND TO PROHIBIT "DOCTOR SHOPPING" AS A MEANS OF FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES FROM PRACTITIONERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-108 is amended by adding the following new subdivisions to subsection (a), to be numbered and to read as follows:

"(13)   To obtain controlled substances through the use of legal prescriptions which have been obtained by the knowing and willful misrepresentation to or by the intentional withholding of information from one or more practitioners.

(14)     Who is an employee of a registrant or practitioner and who is authorized to possess controlled substances or has access to controlled substances by virtue of his employment, to embezzle or fraudulently or knowingly and willfully misapply or divert to his own use or other unauthorized or illegal use or to take, make away with or secrete, with intent to embezzle or fraudulently or knowingly and willfully misapply or divert to his own use or other unauthorized or illegal use any controlled substance which shall have come into his possession or under his care."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective August 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of July, 1983.