GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 595
HOUSE BILL 728

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A COLLECTIBLE LIEN FOR SERVICES RENDERED BY PRIVATE RESCUE SQUADS THAT ARE SUBSTANTIALLY SUPPORTED BY MUNICIPALITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 44-51.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 44-51.4. Attachment or garnishment for county or city ambulance or county or city supported ambulance service.
Whenever ambulance services are provided by a county, by a county-franchised ambulance service supplemented by county funds, or by a municipally owned and operated ambulance service or by an ambulance service supplemented by municipal funds and a recipient of such ambulance services or one legally responsible for the support of a recipient of such services fails to pay charges fixed for such services for a period of 90 days after the rendering of such services, the county or municipality providing the ambulance services, or providing financial support to the ambulance service, may treat the amount due for such services as if it were a tax due to the county or municipality and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of attachment and garnishment proceedings as set out in G.S. 105-368."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of July, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives