NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1961 SESSION

CHAPTER 486
HOUSE BILL 543

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO INSURE FERRIES OWNED AND OPERATED BY SAID COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 6 of Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is amended by adding the following Section thereto:
"Sec. 136‑82.1.  The State Highway Commission is vested with authority to purchase hull insurance and protection and indemnity insurance on all vessels and boats owned, leased, chartered or otherwise controlled and operated by said commission as ferries: provided that the collision, protection and indemnity clauses of said insurance shall be limited so as to indemnify said commission only for such liability as the said commission might have under the provisions of Article 31 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes and such liability as the said commission might have to the United States for damage to United States property, for wreck removal, or otherwise."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.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 23rd day of May, 1961.