NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 893

SENATE BILL 335

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATE TORT CLAIM ACT REGARDING THE PLACE OF HEARING AND THE AMOUNT OF LIABILITY OF THE STATE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-291 is hereby amended by striking from the eighteenth line thereof the words and figures "fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000.00)" and by substituting in lieu thereof "twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00)".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 143-297 is hereby amended by inserting between the words "agree" and "that" as the same appear in line sixteen of such section the words "or the Industrial Commission directs".

Sec. 3.  This act shall not apply to claims arising prior to July 1, 1971.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of July, 1971.