1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.138 Sec.2
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CHAPTER 138 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 35, ARTICLE 7, OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE STERILIZATION OF EPILEPTICS. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
G. S. 35-37, as it appears in Volume 2A, 1966 Replacement, of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is amended by rewriting said Section so that the same shall hereafter read as follows: $ 35-37. Operations on Mental Defectives Not in Institutions. It shall be the duty of the board of commissioners of any county of North Carolina, at the public cost and expense, to have one of the operations described in 35-36, performed upon any mentally diseased or feeble-minded resident 194 of the county, not an inmate of any public institution, upon the request and petition of the director of public welfare or other similar public official performing in whole or in part the functions of such director, or of the next of kin, or the legal guardian of such mentally defective person: Provided, however, that no operation described in this Section shall be lawful unless and until the provisions of this Article shall be first complied with.