Bill Text: NC S721 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Unauthorized Practice of Medicine
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Re-ref Com On Judiciary I [S721 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2010-S721-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
S 2
SENATE BILL 721
House Committee Substitute Favorable 6/24/10
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Short Title: Unauthorized Practice of Medicine/Felony. |
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March 24, 2009
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to change the penalty for the unauthorized practice of medicine from a misdemeanor to a felony.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 90‑18(a) reads as rewritten:
"(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, and if any person
shall practice 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. The person so practicing without
license 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."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2010, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
