GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 360

Short Title:  Imminent Hazard Redefined.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Murphy; Speed, Marvin, Ward, Forrester, and Plexico.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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March 28, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE DEFINITION OF "IMMINENT HAZARD”AS IT APPLIES TO CHAPTER 130A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-2.  Definitions.
The following definitions shall apply throughout this Chapter unless otherwise specified:
(1)	‘Commission' means the Commission for Health Services.
(2)	‘Department' means the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources.
(3)	‘Imminent hazard' means a situation which is likely to cause a threat to human life, a threat of serious physical injury, or a threat of serious adverse health effects if no immediate action is taken.
(4)	‘Local board of health' means a district board of health or a county board of health.
(5)	‘Local health department' means a district health department or a county health department.
(6)	‘Local health director' means the administrative head of a local health department appointed pursuant to this Chapter.
(7)	‘Person' means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, unit of local government or other legal entity.
(8)	‘Secretary' means the Secretary of the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources.
(9)	‘Unit of local government' means a county, city, consolidated city-county, sanitary district or other local political subdivision, authority or agency of local government.
(10)	‘Vital records' means birth, death, fetal death, marriage, annulment and divorce records registered under the provisions of Article 4 of this Chapter."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.