GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 648
SENATE BILL 995

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH MAXIMUM FEES TO PROVIDE FINANCING FOR THE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS TO REGULATE DENTAL ANESTHESIA AND PARENTERAL SEDATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-30.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90-30.1.  (Expires June 30, 1990) Standards for general anesthesia and parenteral sedation; fees authorized.
The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners may establish by regulation reasonable education, training, and equipment standards for safe administration and monitoring of general anesthesia and parenteral sedation for outpatients in the dental setting.  Regulatory standards may include a permit process for general anesthesia and parenteral sedation by dentists.  The requirements of any permit process adopted under the authority of this section must include provisions that will allow a dentist to qualify for continued use of general anesthesia, if he or she is licensed to practice dentistry in North Carolina and shows the Board that he or she has been utilizing general anesthesia in a competent manner for the five years preceding July 1, 1988, and his or her office facilities pass an on-site examination and inspection by qualified representatives of the Board. In order to provide the means of regulating general anesthesia and parenteral sedation, including examination and inspection of dental offices involved, the Board may charge and collect fees established by its rules and regulations not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for each permit application and each annual renewal, and not exceeding three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) for each office inspection."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of July, 1989.