GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 525

HOUSE BILL 345

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITIES TO DEFEND OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS AND PAY ANY OR ALL OF A CLAIM MADE OR CIVIL JUDGMENT ENTERED AGAINST ANY OF THEM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-167 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"(d)      For the purposes of this section, 'authority' means an authority organized under Article 1 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes, the North Carolina Water and Sewer Authorities Act."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 160A-167(a) is amended by inserting immediately before the words "employee or officer, or former employee or officer", wherever they appear, the words "member or former member of the governing body of any authority, or any city, county, or authority"; and by inserting immediately after the word "city" wherever it appears the word "authority".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 160A-167(b) and (c) are each amended by deleting "city or county" wherever they appear and inserting in lieu thereof "city, authority, or county"; and further by adding before the words "employees or officers or former employees or officers" and "employee or officer" the words "members or former members of the governing body of any authority, or any city, county, or authority".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 160A-167(c) is further amended by adding after the words "city council" and before the words "or board of county commissioners" the words ", authority governing board," whenever those words appear, and adding after the words "county commissioners" the words "as the case may be".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 162A-6 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:

"(14b) To provide for the defense of civil and criminal actions and payment of civil judgments against employees and officers or former employees and officers and members or former members of the governing body as authorized by G.S. 160A-167, as amended."

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1983.