GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1051

HOUSE BILL 1165

 

AN ACT TO EMPOWER CATAWBA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND ALEXANDER COUNTY HOSPITAL TO USE ATTACHMENT AND GARNISHMENT PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTING UNPAID BILLS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Whenever  hospital services are provided by Catawba Memorial Hospital or Alexander County Hospital and a recipient of the services fails to pay the charges fixed for the services for a period of 180 days after demand is made for the rendering of the payment for the services, the hospital may treat the amount due for the services as if it were a tax due to Catawba County or Alexander County as the case may be and may attach wages or other compensation, rents, bank deposits, or any other intangible property and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of attachment and garnishment proceedings as provided in G.S. 105-364 and G.S.  105-368.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1984.