1955_session laws_1275_3
CHAPTER 1274 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 122 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE TRANSFER OF PATIENTS FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC TRAINING AND RESEARCH CENTER AT CHAPEL HILL TO A STATE HOSPITAL OR INSTITUTION UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS BOARD OF CONTROL. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Article 3 of Chapter 122 of the General Statutes is amended by adding new Sections immediately following G. S. 122-46.2, to be numbered as indicated, and to read as follows: G. S, 122-46.3. Authorization of Hospital for Commitment. By this amendment the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill shall be authorized to receive allegedly mentally disordered persons committed for observation, for commitment, release or discharge in the same manner as a State hospital. The clerk of the court shall not make commitment to this Center without the approval of the Director of the Inpatient Service. G. S. 122-46.4. Clerk to Commit for Observation to the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital for Commitment, Release or Discharge. When the 1317 clerk of court has approval as provided in Section 122-46.3 he may make commitment of an allegedly mentally disordered person as provided in Section 122-46. Any two duly licensed physicians not directly connected with the Inpatient Service of this Center may serve as the certifying physicians. G. S. 122-46.5. Clerk May Make Final Commitment to Center. When the allegedly mentally disordered person has been observed for a period of thirty days the Director of the Inpatient Service shall report concerning the persons condition to the clerk in the same manner as the superintendent of the State hospital as provided in Section 122-46.1, the clerk shall then act on this report as provided in Section 122-46.1. G. S. 122-46.6. Commitment upon Patients Application. Any person believing himself to be of unsound mind or threatened with mental disorder may voluntarily commit himself to the Psychiatric Training and Research Center at the South Wing of the North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill as to a State hospital upon approval of his application by the Director of the Inpatient Service; the application for commitment shall be in the form designated in the General Statutes, Section 122-62. The patients application shall be accompanied by the recommendation of a licensed physician. Final commitment of voluntarily committed patients must proceed through the same channels as in the case of the involuntary commitment of an allegedly mentally disordered person.