NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 166

HOUSE BILL 458

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE TORT CLAIM SETTLEMENT AUTHORITY OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 143-295(a) and (b), as the same appears in the 1979 Supplement to the 1978 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting in each place where they appear the words and figures "three thousand dollars ($3,000)" and substituting therefor the words and figures "five thousand dollars ($5,000)".

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1981.