NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 450

SENATE BILL 407

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 44-49 AND G.S. 44-50 TO PROVIDE FOR THE INCLUSION OF SUMS DUE FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE IN LIENS UPON RECOVERIES FOR PERSONAL INJURIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 44-49, as the same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to the 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the first paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"From and after March 26, 1935, there is hereby created a lien upon any sums recovered as damages for personal injury in any civil action in this State, the said lien in favor of any person, corporation, municipal corporation or county to whom the person so recovering, or the person in whose behalf the recovery has been made, may be indebted for drugs, medical supplies, ambulance services, and medical services rendered by any physician, dentist, trained nurse, or hospitalization, or hospital attention and/or services rendered in connection with the injury in compensation for which the said damages have been recovered. Where damages are recovered for and in behalf of minors or persons non compos mentis, such liens shall attach to the sum recovered as fully as if the said person were sui juris."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 44-50, as the same appears in the 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting in the seventh line thereof after the words "medical supplies", the words "ambulance service".

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of May, 1969.