GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	4
SENATE BILL 336
Second Edition Engrossed 3/15/01
 House Committee Substitute Favorable 5/7/01
Fourth Edition Engrossed 5/15/01

Short Title:	Cabarrus Ambulance Service.	()	
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March 5, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE IT UNLAWFUL TO FRAUDULENTLY OR UNNECESSARILY OBTAIN AMBULANCE SERVICES IN VARIOUS COUNTIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑111.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑111.2.  Obtaining ambulance services without intending to pay therefor – certain named counties.
Any person who with intent to defraud shall obtain ambulance services without intending at the time of obtaining such services to pay, if financially able, any reasonable charges therefor shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. A determination by the court that the recipient of such services has willfully failed to pay for the services rendered for a period of 90 days after request for payment, and that the recipient is financially able to do so, shall raise a presumption that the recipient at the time of obtaining the services intended to defraud the provider of the services and did not intend to pay for the services.
The section shall apply to Alamance, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Cumberland, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston, Graham, Guilford, Halifax, Haywood, Henderson, Hoke, Hyde, Iredell, Macon, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, New Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pasquotank, Pender, Person, Polk, Randolph, Robeson, Rockingham, Scotland, Stanly, Surry, Transylvania, Union, Vance, Washington, Wilkes and Yadkin Counties only."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 14‑111.3 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑111.3.  Making unneeded ambulance request in certain counties.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to willfully obtain or attempt to obtain ambulance service that is not needed, or to make a false request or report that an ambulance is needed. Every person convicted of violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
This section shall apply only to the Counties of Alamance, Ashe, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Camden, Carteret, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Graham, Greene, Halifax, Haywood, Hoke, Macon, Madison, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Polk, Robeson, Rockingham, Washington, Wilkes and Yadkin."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2001, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.