NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 659

HOUSE BILL 672

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE LIMITATION ON TORT CLAIMS TO THREE YEARS FROM ACCRUAL THEREOF.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-299 as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 143-299.  Limitation on claims. — All claims against any and all State departments, institutions, and agencies shall henceforth be forever barred unless a claim be filed with the Industrial Commission within three years after the accrual of such claim, or if death results from the accident, the claim for wrongful death shall be forever barred unless a claim be filed by the personal representative of the deceased with the Industrial Commission within two years after such death."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.