A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize granville hospital to use attachment and garnishment procedures for collecting unpaid bills.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Whenever hospital services are provided by Granville Hospital and a recipient of these services fails to pay the charges fixed for the services for a period of 120 days after demand is made for the rendering of the services, the hospital may treat the amount due for the services as if it were a tax due to the County of Granville and may attach wages or other compensation, rents, bank deposits, or any other intangible property and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of the attachment and garnishment proceedings provided in G.S. 105‑364 and G.S. 105‑368.
SECTION 2.  This act is supplemental to any provisions provided under general law.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.