NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 5

HOUSE BILL 24

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE IMMUNITY FOR REPORTING CANCER TO EMPLOYEES OF PHYSICIANS, PATHOLOGISTS, HOSPITALS AND OTHER MEDICAL FACILITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G. S. 130-184.2 is hereby amended to read as follows:

130-184.2.  Immunity of persons who report cancer. Any physician, pathologist or their employee, any administrator or other officer or employee of any hospital, clinic, center, sanatorium or other medical facility, of any health department or home for the aged who makes a report, pursuant to this article, to the Central Tumor Registry, to a local health director, or to the State Board of Health shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed for so doing, unless such person acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 11th day of February, 1969.