NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 616
HOUSE BILL 917

AN ACT TO AFFORD INDIGENT PERSONS LEGAL REPRESENTATION IN ACTIONS DESIGNED TO JUDICIALLY COMMIT THEM TO MENTAL HOSPITALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-451(a)(6) as the same appears in the 1969 Replacement Volume 1B of the General Statutes is hereby amended and rewritten to read:
"(6)	A proceeding for judicial hospitalization under Chapter 122, Article 7 (Judicial Hospitalization) or Article 11 (Mentally Ill Criminals), of the General Statutes;".
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1973.