GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 410
AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTE REQUIRING THE DESTRUCTION OF HYPODERMIC NEEDLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-113.4A is rewritten to read:
"(a) It shall be unlawful for any firm, organization, corporation, hospital, or medical clinic, or their agents or employees to discard a hypodermic syringe or needle unless such instrument is unbroken and placed in an incinerator or in a hardwalled container and disposed of in a sanitary landfill. Provided, however, that any such instrument that is accidentally broken shall be disposed of in a like manner.
(b) This section shall not apply to the discarding of such instruments after personal use by individuals who are under the care of a physician.
(c) Further, this section shall not apply to the discarding of such instruments after the use for the treatment of livestock.
(d) Violation of this section shall be a general misdemeanor."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 1987.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of June, 1987.