Title: S.L. 1961-1149
Category: Introduced Bill
Keywords: Bill ?

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 1149
SENATE BILL 402

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 57 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES AND VARIOUS SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 58 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATED THERETO IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SAME APPLICABLE TO DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapters 57 and 58 of the General Statutes, as the same appear in the 1960 Replacement Volume 2B, are hereby amended as follows:
(a)	Chapter 57 shall be entitled "Hospital, Medical and Dental Service Corporations".
(b)	The words "and/or dental" are inserted following the word "medical" in the following places:
G.S. 57‑1, lines 3, 4, 22, 25, 28, 30 and 31
G.S. 57‑3, lines 6 and 16
G.S. 57‑5, lines 3 and 15
G.S. 57‑6, line 3 of subdivision (3)
G.S. 57‑7, line 2 of subsection (c)(3)c
G.S. 57‑8, lines 8, 12 and 19
G.S. 57‑11, line 2
G.S. 57‑12, lines 15 and 28
G.S. 57‑12.1, the Section title and in the text lines 1, 5, and 8
G.S. 57‑16, lines 7, 15 and 22
G.S. 57‑18, line 2
G.S. 57‑19, line 2
G.S. 57‑20, line 3
G.S. 58‑41, line 19 of subdivision (2)b and lines 3 and 8 of the last paragraph of the Section
G.S. 58‑257, line 3 of subsection (a)
(c)	The words "and/or dentists" are inserted following the word "physicians" in the following places:
G.S. 57‑1, lines 5 and 29
G.S. 57‑3, lines 7, 9 and 11
(d)	The word "both" is stricken out and the words "any or all of them" are inserted in lieu thereof in the following places:
G.S. 57‑1, lines 25, 28, 29 and 30
G.S. 57‑20, line 3
(e)	The title to G.S. 57‑3 shall be entitled "Hospital, physician and dentist contracts".
(f)	The following paragraph is added to G.S. 57‑1 and shall be placed between the present third and fourth paragraphs thereof:
"The term 'dental service plan' as used in this Chapter includes contracting for the payment of fees toward, or furnishing of dental and/or any other professional services authorized or permitted to be furnished by a duly licensed dentist."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1961.