NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 938

HOUSE BILL 1185

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE SELECTION OF BLOOD DONORS AND THE COLLECTION, STORAGE, PROCESSING AND TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new article is hereby added to Chapter 90 to be entitled "Blood Banks" and to read as follows:

"Article 15B

"Blood Banks

"§ 90-220.10.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the selection of blood donors or in the collection, storage, processing, or transfusion of human blood, except at the direction or under the supervision of a physician licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina. Any person, firm or corporation convicted of the violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

"§ 90-220.11.  In the selection of donors due care shall be exercised to minimize the risks of transmission of agents that may cause hepatitis or other diseases.

"§ 90-220.12.  Nothing in this Article shall be construed to affect the provisions of G.S. 20-16.2 and G.S. 20-139.1."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of July, 1971.