§ 153A-224. Supervision of local confinement facilities. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 153A‑224. Supervision of local confinement facilities.

(a)        No person may be confined in a local confinement facilityunless custodial personnel are present and available to provide continuoussupervision in order that custody will be secure and that, in event ofemergency, such as fire, illness, assaults by other prisoners, or otherwise,the prisoners can be protected.  These personnel shall supervise prisonersclosely enough to maintain safe custody and control and to be at all timesinformed of the prisoners' general health and emergency medical needs.

(b)        In a medical emergency, the custodial personnel shall secureemergency medical care from a licensed physician according to the unit's planfor medical care.  If a physician designated in the plan is not available, thepersonnel shall secure medical services from any licensed physician who isavailable.  The unit operating the facility shall pay the cost of emergencymedical services unless the inmate has third‑party insurance, in whichcase the third‑party insurer shall be the initial payor and the medicalprovider shall bill the third‑party insurer.  The county shall only beliable for costs not reimbursed by the third‑party insurer, in whichevent the county may recover from the inmate the cost of the non‑reimbursedmedical services.

(c)        If a person violates any provision of this section, he isguilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (1967, c. 581, s. 2; 1973, c. 822, s. 1; 1993, c. 510, c. 539, s. 1061;1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)