AN ACT to rename Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services facilities and to make other conforming and statutory changes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 122C‑181(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 122C‑181.  Secretary's jurisdiction over State facilities.
(a)	Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary shall operate the following facilities:
(1)	Psychiatric Hospitals:
a.	Cherry Hospital.
b.	Dorothea Dix  Hospital.
c.	John Umstead  Hospital.
d.	Broughton Hospital.
(2)	Developmental Centers:
a.	Caswell Developmental Center.
	b1.	J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center.
c.	Murdoch Developmental Center.
		(3)	Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers:
a.	Walter B. Jones Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center.
	c.	Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center.
d.	R.J. Blackley Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center.
(4)	Neuro‑Medical Treatment Centers:
			d.	Black Mountain Neuro‑Medical Treatment Center.
e.	O'Berry Neuro‑Medical Treatment Center.
f.	Longleaf Neuro‑Medical Treatment Center.
(5)	Residential Programs for Children:
a.	Whitaker School.
b.	Wright School."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 122C‑181(a)(1), as amended by Section 1 of this act, reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary shall operate the following facilities:
(1)	Psychiatric Hospitals:
a.	Cherry Hospital.
a1.	Central Regional Hospital.
		
d.	Broughton Hospital."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 122C‑430.30 reads as rewritten:
"Part 2A. Broughton Hospital Joint Security Force.
"§ 122C‑430.  Joint security force.
The Secretary may designate one or more special police officers who shall make up a joint security force to enforce the law of North Carolina and any ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to G.S. 143‑116.6 or G.S. 143‑116.7 or pursuant to the authority granted the Department by any other law on the territory of the Broughton Hospital, North Carolina School for the Deaf at Morganton (K‑12), Western Regional Vocational Rehabilitation Facility, J. Iverson Riddle Developmental Center, and the surrounding grounds and land adjacent to Broughton Hospital allocated to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, all in Burke County. After taking the oath of office for law enforcement officers as set out in G.S. 11‑11, these special police officers have the same powers as peace officers now vested in sheriffs within the territory embraced by the named facilities. These special police officers may arrest persons outside the territory of the named institutions but within the confines of Burke County when the person arrested has committed a criminal offense within that territory for which the officers could have arrested the person within that territory, and the arrest is made during the person's immediate and continuous flight from that territory."
SECTION 4.  G.S. 108A‑101(m) reads as rewritten:
"(m)	The word "neglect" refers to a disabled adult who is either living alone and not able to provide for himself or herself the services which are necessary to maintain the person's mental or physical health or is not receiving services from  the person's caretaker. A person is not receiving services from his caretaker if, among other things and not by way of limitation, the person is a resident of one of the State‑owned psychiatric hospitals listed in G.S. 122C‑181(a)(1), the State‑owned Developmental Centers listed in G.S. 122C‑181(a)(2), or the State‑owned Neuro‑Medical Treatment Centers listed in G.S. 122C‑181(a)(3), the person is, in the opinion of the professional staff of that State‑owned facility, mentally incompetent to give consent to medical treatment, the person has no legal guardian appointed pursuant to Chapter 35A, or guardian as defined in G.S. 122C‑3(15), and the person needs medical treatment."
SECTION 5.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective when the Dorothea Dix Hospital is closed and is no longer serving psychiatric patients.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of June, 2007.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2007