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incarcerated in the county jail regardless of the circumstances <br /> surrounding the need for emergency medical care and without <br /> obligation on the part of the medical provider to seek <br /> reimbursement for emergency medical care expenses from the person <br /> receiving the care; and <br /> WHEREAS, the North Carolina Legislature has imposed the duty <br /> and burden on counties to provide emergency medical care to <br /> prisoners in the lawful custody of the county sheriff or <br /> incarcerated in the county jail without regard to whether the <br /> prisoner is indigent or without regard to whether the prisoner is <br /> a resident of the county wherein he or she is in custody or <br /> incarcerated; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Orange County <br /> regards the present prisoner medical care statutory requirements, <br /> which essentially make counties insurers of prisoners in their <br /> jails and in the custody of their sheriff's, unreasonable and an <br /> example of an unfunded State mandate. <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County <br /> Commissioners of Orange County requests that the North Carolina <br /> Association of County Commissioners support legislative <br /> reconsideration of the responsibility imposed by law on counties <br /> to pay for, in all cases, the emergency medical expenses of <br /> prisoners confined in the county jails and prisoners in the <br /> lawful custody of the sheriff providing: <br /> 1. cost sharing for these expenses with the State of North <br /> Carolina; <br /> 3 <br />