GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 597
SENATE BILL 725

AN ACT TO EXEMPT RICHMOND COUNTY FROM CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS RELATING TO THE SALE OF HOSPITAL FACILITIES TO NONPROFIT CORPORATIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 131E-8(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	A municipality as defined in G.S. 131E-6(5) or hospital authority as defined in G.S. 131E-16(14), upon such terms and conditions as it deems wise, with or without monetary consideration, may sell or convey to a nonprofit corporation organized under Chapter 55A of the General Statutes any rights of ownership the municipality or hospital authority has in a hospital facility including the building, land and equipment associated with the hospital, if the nonprofit corporation is legally committed to continue to operate the facility as a community general hospital open to the general public, free of discrimination based upon race, creed, color, sex or national origin.  The nonprofit corporation shall also agree, as a condition of the municipality or hospital authority's conveying ownership, to provide such services to indigent patients as the municipality or hospital authority and the nonprofit corporation shall agree.  "
Sec. 2.  This act applies to Richmond County only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of June, 1996.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives