NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 307

HOUSE BILL 486

AN ACT TO ADJUST DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' ACCIDENT REPORT COPY FEE TO RECOVER COST.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-166.1(i) as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(i)        All collision reports, including supplemental reports, above mentioned, except those made by State, city or county police, shall be without prejudice and shall be for the use of the Department and shall not be used in any manner as evidence, or for any other purpose in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of such collision except that the Department shall furnish upon demand of any court a properly executed certificate stating that a particular collision report has or has not been filed with the Department solely to prove a compliance with this section.

The reports made by State, city or county police, and medical examiners but no other reports required under this section shall be subject to the inspection of members of the general public at all reasonable times, and the Department shall furnish a certified copy of any such report to any member of the general public who shall request the same, upon receipt of a fee of two dollars fifty cents ($2.50) certified copy, or The Department is authorized to furnish without charge to departments of the governments of the United States, states, counties, and cities certified copies of such collision reports for official use.

Nothing herein provided shall prohibit the Department from furnishing to interested parties only the name or names of insurers and insured and policy number shown upon any reports required under this section."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1975.