NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 529

SENATE BILL 446

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE TORT CLAIMS ACT TO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR NEGLIGENCE AND TO RAISE THE LIMITS TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-291 as the same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking on line 6 the words "a negligent act" and by inserting in lieu thereof, the words "the negligence".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-291 as the same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by deleting the words and figures "thirty thousand dollars ($30,000)" and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) on account of injury and damage to any one person".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979, and shall apply only to those claims based upon negligence occurring thereafter.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of June, 1977.