NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 491

SENATE BILL 222

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 1-105 RELATING TO SERVICE OF PROCESS UPON NON-RESIDENT DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1-105, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by amending the last sentence of subsection (2) to read as follows:

"If the registered letter is not delivered to the defendant because it is unclaimed, or because he has removed himself from his last known address and has left no forwarding address, or is unknown at his last known address, service on the defendant shall be deemed completed on the date that the registered letter is returned to the plaintiff or Commissioner of Motor Vehicles."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1963.