GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION
CHAPTER 597
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. The
nonprofit corporation shall further agree that should it fail to operate the
facility as a community general hospital open to the general public or should
the nonprofit corporation dissolve without a successor nonprofit corporation to
carry out the terms and conditions of the agreement of conveyance, all
ownership rights in the hospital facility, including the building, land and
equipment associated with the hospital, shall revert to the municipality or
hospital authority or successor entity originally conveying the hospital."
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