NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 699

HOUSE BILL 635

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SETTLEMENT OF TORT CLAIMS BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143-295 as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 143-295.  Settlement of claims — (a) Any claim hereinafter filed pursuant to this Article with the Industrial Commission may be settled upon agreement between the claimant and the Attorney General without a formal hearing, subject only to approval by the Industrial Commission.

(b)        Transfer of title of any motor vehicle acquired in behalf of the State in settlement of a claim pursuant to the provisions of this Article may be transferred by the Attorney General in the same manner as title is transferred by an insurance company under the provisions of G.S. 20-75."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1973.