GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 540
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 1-538.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 1-538.1. Strict liability for damage to person or property by minors.
Any person or other legal entity shall be entitled to recover
actual damages suffered in an amount not to exceed a total of one thousand
dollars ($1,000) two thousand dollars ($2,000) from the parent or
parents of any minor who shall maliciously or willfully injure such person or
destroy the real or personal property of such person. Parents whose
custody and control have been removed by court order or by contract prior to
the act complained of shall not be liable under this act. This act shall
not preclude or limit recovery of damages from parents under common law remedies
available in this State."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 1993, and applies to causes of action arising on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of July, 1993.
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Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives