NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 471
SENATE BILL 607

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADMISSION AND COMMITMENT OF ALLEGED MENTALLY ILL OR INEBRIATE PERSONS TO LOCAL FACILITIES DESIGNATED BY THE STATE BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  A new section is hereby added to Article 7 of Chapter 122 to be designated G.S. 122-65.10 and to provide as follows:
"§ 122-65.10.  Authorization for admission of patients to local mental health centers and other facilities designated by the Board of Mental Health. — Local mental health centers and other facilities operated by, or in conjunction with, the Department of Mental Health may be designated by the Board of Mental Health, and upon such designation, shall be authorized to receive alleged mentally ill or inebriate persons in the same manner as a State hospital. In regard to persons involuntarily committed under Article 7 of Chapter 122, the clerk of superior court shall order such persons to be hospitalized to the facility serving his county as designated by the Board of Mental Health Provided that such designation shall be filed in compliance with the requirements regarding the filing of rules and regulations of State agencies.
All provisions of Chapter 122 relating to the care, treatment, and maintenance of patients shall be applicable to any facility authorized to receive alleged mentally ill or inebriate patients pursuant to this section. Such facilities shall be subject to the rules and regulations relating to the care, treatment, and maintenance of patients as promulgated by the Board of Mental Health.
The clinical director of a facility designated to receive patients pursuant to this section is hereby authorized and directed to perform all acts and duties in regard to such patients in his program as would normally be performed by the superintendent of a State hospital."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1971.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of June, 1971.