NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 689

HOUSE BILL 1061

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-188 CONCERNING INVESTIGATIONS OF VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-188 is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"Regardless of territorial jurisdiction, any member of the State Highway Patrol who initiates an investigation of an accident or collision may not relinquish responsibility for completing the investigation, or for filing criminal charges as appropriate, without clear assurance that another law enforcement officer or agency has fully undertaken responsibility, and in such cases he shall render reasonable assistance to the succeeding officer or agency if requested."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.