NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 885

HOUSE BILL 1352

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 115 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES TO AUTHORIZE PARTICIPATION BY LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CIVIL PREPAREDNESS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 115-183(6), as the same is found in Volume 3A, Part II of the General Statutes 1978 Replacement, is rewritten to read as follows:

"School buses owned by a local board of education may be used for Civil Preparedness purposes in any state of disaster or local state of emergency declared under Chapter 166A of the General Statutes. Under rules and regulations adopted by a local board of education, its school buses may be used with its permission for the purpose of testing civil preparedness plans; however, neither the State Board of Education nor the local board of education shall be liable for the operating cost, any compensation claims or tort claims resulting from the test."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.