1933_public laws_225_9
CHAPTER 224 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 34 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1929 OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO THE STERILIZATION OF PERSONS MENTALLY DEFECTIVE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Proceedings under this act shall be instituted by petition of the said prosecutor to the said Eugenics Board. Such petition shall be in writing, signed by the petitioner and duly verified by his affidavit to the best of his knowledge, information and belief. It shall contain the history of the inmate or patient as shown in the records of the institution, or if he is not in an institution, then the complete medical history of the case of the individual resident so far as it bears upon the recommendations for asexualization or sterilization, and setting forth the particular reasons why asexualization or sterilization is recommended. This history shall be verified by the affidavit of at least one competent physician who has had actual knowledge of the case and who in the cases of inmates or patients of the institutions described in Section 1 of this act may be a member of the medical staff of said institution. The petition shall further contain an adequate social case history of the circumstances surrounding the inmates, patients, or individual residents life in so far as such circumstances may bear upon the question as to whether said inmate, patient, or individual resident is likely to procreate a child or children. The prayer of said petition shall be that an order be entered by said board requiring the petitioner to perform, or to have performed by some competent physician or surgeon to be designated by him in said petition, or by said board in its order, upon said inmate or patient or individual resident named in said petition in its discretion that one of the operations specified in Section 1 of this act which shall be best suited to the interests of the said inmate, patient or individual resident or to the public good.