GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
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HOUSE BILL 850
Committee
Substitute Favorable 6/2/11
Third Edition Engrossed 6/3/11
Corrected Copy 6/6/11
Short Title: The Baucum-Reynolds Safe Roads Act. |
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April 7, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to create a permissive inference of proximate cause for the use of a mobile phone when involved in a reportable crash.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Article 3 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 20-137.4B. Mobile phone use in a crash; permissive inference.
In a civil action for damages resulting from a reportable crash resulting in death or serious injury, if the trier of fact finds that a mobile phone or additional technology, as those terms are defined in G.S. 20-137.3, was in use by a driver at the time of the reportable crash, the trier of fact may infer that the use of the mobile phone or additional technology was a proximate cause of the reportable crash."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 2011, and applies to causes of action arising on or after that date.