NC Safe Surrender Law
NC Safe Surrender Law: Surrender Newborns Safely
North Carolina’s Safe Surrender Law allows a parent to surrender a newborn up to 30 days old to a designated safe person* without the parent providing his or her name. Safe Surrender is legal and aims to prevent newborns from being hurt or abandoned.
Your options for a legal Safe Surrender / Designated Safe Persons are:
- A health care provider, as defined under G.S 90-21.11, who is on duty or at a hospital or at a local or district health department or at a nonprofit community health center.
- A first responder, including a law enforcement officer, a certified emergency medical services worker, or a firefighter.
- A social services worker who is on duty or at a local department of social services.
NC DHHS: Safe Surrender (Surrender Newborns Safely)
GA Session Law 2023-14 Senate Bill 20
If there is an emergency, please call 911.