The director is authorized to adopt and publish rules of procedure necessary to implement and carry out the duties of the medical review commission. No rule shall be adopted, however, which requires a party to make a monetary payment as a condition to bringing a malpractice claim before the medical review panel.
History: 1953 Comp., § 58-33-21, enacted by Laws 1976, ch. 2, § 21.
ANNOTATIONSEmergency clauses. — Laws 1976, ch. 2, § 32 contained an emergency clause and was approved February 27, 1976.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 61 Am. Jur. 2d Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers §§ 374, 375.