NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 886

HOUSE BILL 1357

 

 

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE AMOUNT PAYABLE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES ALLEGED TO BE JOINT TORT-FEASORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-300.6(a), as the same appears in 1978 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting the second sentence and substituting in lieu thereof:

"Nothing in this section shall be deemed to waive the sovereign immunity of the State with respect to a claim covered by this section. No payment of a judgment or settlement of a claim against a State employee or several State employees as joint tort-feasors shall exceed the amount payable for any one claim under the Tort Claims Act."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.