GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 223
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF A MENTALLY ILL MINOR.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 122C-3(21) reads as rewritten:
"(21) 'Mental illness' means: (i) when
applied to an adult, an illness which so lessens the capacity of the individual
to use self-control, judgment, and discretion in the conduct of his affairs and
social relations as to make it necessary or advisable for him to be under
treatment, care, supervision, guidance, or control; and (ii) when applied to a
minor, a mental condition, other than mental retardation alone, that so lessens
or impairs the youth's capacity either to develop or to
exercise age appropriate or age adequate self-control,
judgment, or initiative self-control or judgment in the conduct of
his activities and social relationships as to make it necessary or
advisable for him to be under treatment, care, supervision, guidance, or control
so that he is in need of treatment."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 5th day of June, 1989.