GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 250
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/30/89

Short Title:  Neglected Juvenile Defined.	(Public)
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February 16, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE DEFINITION OF NEGLECTED CHILD WITHIN THE JUVENILE JURISDICTION OF THE DISTRICT COURT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-517(21) reads as rewritten:
"(21)	Neglected Juvenile. – A juvenile who does not receive proper care, supervision, or discipline from his parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker; or who has been abandoned; or who is not provided necessary medical care or other remedial care recognized under State law, or who lives in an  environment injurious to his welfare, or who lives in a home where another child dies and there is probable cause to believe the child died as a result of abuse or neglect or who lives in a home where another child has been subjected to sexual abuse or severe physical abuse within the family, or who has been placed for care or adoption in violation of law."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1989.