NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 640

HOUSE BILL 279

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20‑279.21 DEFINING MOTOR VEHICLE LIABILITY INSURANCE POLICY FOR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PURPOSES SO AS TO INCLUDE PROTECTION AGAINST UNINSURED MOTORISTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20‑279.21(b), as the same appears in the 1959 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by:

(1)        Striking out the word "and" at the end of subdivision 1 thereof;

(2)        Striking out the period at the end of subdivision 2 thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word and punctuation "; and"; and

(3)        Adding thereto a new subdivision to be designated as subdivision 3 and to read as follows:

"3.        No policy of bodily injury liability insurance, covering liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of any motor vehicle, shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this State with respect to any motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this State unless coverage is provided therein or supplemental thereto, in limits for bodily injury or death set forth in Subsection (c) of paragraph 20‑279.5, under provisions filed with and approved by the Insurance Commissioner, for the protection of persons insured thereunder who are legally entitled to recover damages from owners or operators of uninsured motor vehicles and hit-and-run motor vehicles because of bodily injury, sickness or disease, including death, resulting therefrom. Such provisions shall include coverage for the protection of persons insured thereunder who are legally entitled to recover damages from owners or operators of uninsured motor vehicles because of injury to or destruction of the property of such insured, with a limit in the aggregate for all insureds in any one accident of five thousand dollars, ($5,000.00) and subject, for each insured, to an exclusion of the first one hundred dollars ($100.00) of such damages. The coverage required under this Section shall not be applicable where any insured named in the policy shall reject the coverage."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on and after August 1, 1961.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1961.