NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 127

HOUSE BILL 177

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CITY MANAGER TO SETTLE ADDITIONAL CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY OF WILMINGTON.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 29.3 of the Charter of the City of Wilmington, as it appears in Section 1 of Chapter 495, Session Laws of 1977, is rewritten to read:

"Sec. 29.3. Settlement of claims by city manager. The city manager may settle claims against the city for (1) personal injury for damages to property when the amount involved does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), and does not exceed the actual loss sustained, including loss of time, medical expenses, and any other expense actually incurred, and (2) the taking of small portions of private property which are needed for street or utility rights-of-way, or rounding of corners at street intersections, or storm sewer rights-of-way, when the amount involved in any such settlement does not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), and does not exceed the actual loss sustained. Settlement of claim by the city manager pursuant to this section shall constitute a complete release of the city from any and all damages sustained by the person involved in such settlement in any manner arising out of the accident, occasion or taking complained of. All such releases shall be approved by the city attorney's office."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of March, 1979.