GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 815
HOUSE BILL 250

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 has been placed for care or adoption in violation of law.  In determining whether a juvenile is a neglected juvenile, it is relevant whether that juvenile lives in a home where another juvenile has died as a result of abuse or neglect or lives in a home where another juvenile has been subjected to sexual abuse or severe physical abuse by an adult who regularly lives in the home."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1990.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of June, 1990.