Bill Text: NC S31 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Clarify Penalty Unauth. Practice of Medicine
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-23 - Ch. SL 2011-194 [S31 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S31-Enrolled.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SENATE BILL 31
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to cLARIFY the penalty for the unauthorized practice of medicine.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 90‑18(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 90‑18. Practicing without license; penalties.
(a) No person shall perform
any act constituting the practice of medicine or surgery, as defined in this
Article, or any of the branches thereof, unless the person shall have been
first licensed and registered so to do in the manner provided in this
Article. Article, and if any Any person shall practice who
practices medicine or surgery without being duly licensed and registered,
as provided in this Article, the person shall not be allowed to maintain
any action to collect any fee for such services. TheAny person so
practicing without license being duly licensed and registered in this
State shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor, except that if the
person so practicing without a license is an out‑of‑state
practitioner who has not been licensed and registered to practice medicine or
surgery in this State, the person shall be guilty of a Class I felony.Class
1 misdemeanor. Any person so practicing without being duly licensed and
registered in this State and who is falsely representing himself or herself in
a manner as being licensed or registered under this Article or any Article of
this Chapter shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Any person so practicing
without being duly licensed and registered in this State and who is an out‑of‑state
practitioner shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Any person who has a license
or approval under this Article that is inactive due solely to the failure to
complete annual registration in a timely fashion as required by this Article or
any person who is licensed, registered, and practicing under any other Article of
this Chapter shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011
