NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 674
SENATE BILL 280

AN ACT AMENDING G.S. 20-279.21 RELATING TO THE LIMITS OF UNINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE IN MOTOR VEHICLE LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-279.21(b)(3) is hereby amended as follows: By inserting in line 11 thereof a semicolon after the word "therefrom" and adding the following language: "and provided that an insured shall be entitled to secure increased limits coverage of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident and, subject to said limit for one person, twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident if the policy of such insured carries liability limits of equal or greater amounts for the protection of third persons."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall apply only to new and renewal automobile liability insurance policies issued on and after September 1, 1965.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of May, 1965.