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<br /> Article 9B.
<br /> Attachment or Garnishment and Lien for Ambulance Service in Certain Counties.
<br /> § 44-51.4. Attachment or garnishment for county or city ambulance or county or city
<br /> supported ambulance service.
<br /> Whenever ambulance services are provided by a county, by a county-franchised ambulance
<br /> service supplemented by county funds, or by amunicipally owned and operated ambulance service
<br /> or by an ambulance service supplemented by municipal funds and a recipient of such ambulance
<br /> services or one legally responsible for the support of a recipient of such services fails to pay
<br /> charges fixed for such services for a period of 90 days after the rendering of such services, the
<br /> county or municipality providing the ambulance services, or providing financial support to the
<br /> ambulance service, may treat the amount due for such services as if it were a tax due to the county
<br /> or municipality and may proceed to collect the amount due through the use of attachment and
<br /> garnishment proceedings as set out in G.S. 105-368. (1969, c. 708, s. 1; 1973, c. 1366, s. 1; 1975,
<br /> c. 595, s. 2; 1991, c. 595.)
<br /> § 44-51.5. General lien for county or city ambulance service.
<br /> There is hereby created a general lien upon the real property of any person who has been
<br /> fiunished ambulance service by a county, by a county-franchised ambulance service supplemented
<br /> by county funds, or municipal agency or at the expense of a county or municipal government or
<br /> upon the real property of one legally responsible for the support of any person who has been
<br /> fiunished such ambulance service. (1969, c. 708, s. 2; 1973, c. 1366, s. 2.)
<br /> § 44-51.6. Lien to be filed.
<br /> No lien created by G.S. 44-51.5 shall be valid but from the time of filing in the office of the
<br /> clerk of superior court a statement containing the name and address of the person against whom
<br /> the lien is claimed, the name of the county or municipality claiming the lien, the amount of the
<br /> unpaid charge for ambulance service, and the date and place of fim ishing the ambulance service
<br /> for which charges are asserted and the lien claimed. No lien under this section shall be valid unless
<br /> filed after 90 days of the date of the fiirnishing of ambulance service, and within 180 days of the
<br /> date of the firnishing of ambulance service. (1969, c. 708, s. 3.)
<br /> § 44-51.7. Discharging lien.
<br /> Liens created by G.S. 44-51.5 may be discharged as follows:
<br /> (1) By filing with the clerk of superior court a receipt of acknowledgment, signed
<br /> by the county treasurer, that the lien has been paid or discharged;
<br /> (2) By depositing with the clerk of superior court money equal to the amount of the
<br /> claim, which money shall be held for the benefit of the claimant; or
<br /> (3) By an entry in the lien docket that the action on the part of the lien claimant to
<br /> enforce the lien has been dismissed, or a judgment has been rendered against
<br /> the claimant in such action. (1969, c. 708, s. 4.)
<br /> § 44-51.8. Counties to which Article applies.
<br /> The provisions of this Article shall apply only to Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson,
<br /> Ashe, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden,
<br /> Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Chowan, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven,
<br /> Cumberland, Dare, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston,
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