NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 465

HOUSE BILL 294

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 1B-3 TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CAUSES OF ACTION OF MINORS SETTLING WITH ONE OF TWO OR MORE TORT‑FEASORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 1B-3(e) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following language:

"Provided, however, that a consent judgment in a civil action brought on behalf of a minor, or other person under disability, for the sole purpose of obtaining court approval of a settlement between the injured minor or other person under disability and one of two or more tort-feasors, shall not be deemed to be a judgment as that term is used herein, but shall be treated as a release or covenant not to sue as those terms are used in G.S. 1B-4."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.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 October 1, 1973, but shall not apply to any judgment entered prior to October 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1973.