NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1144

HOUSE BILL 539

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 58-248.8, AS SAME RELATES TO DISTINGUISHING OF RATES BETWEEN SAFE AND NON-SAFE DRIVERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 58-248.8, as same appears in the 1961 Supplement to Replacement Volume 2B, in lines 5 and 6 by striking out the words: "and/or a series of minor traffic violations".

Further amend said Section by adding the following paragraphs at the end thereof:

"No points shall be assigned, except as hereinafter designated, by any insurer with respect to any insured person pursuant to said plan unless the insured shall have been convicted of one or more of the following charges or traffic violations:

Manslaughter                                                                                               not more than 8 points

Prearranged Highway Racing                                                                        not more than 8 points

Highway Racing                                                                                           not more than 6 points

Drunken Driving                                                                                           not more than 6 points

Hit and Run, Bodily Injury                                                                            not more than 6 points

Transporting Whiskey for Sale                                                                      not more than 6 points

Driving After License Suspended or Revoked                                               not more than 6 points

Hit and Run, Property Damage Only                                                             not more than 3 points

Reckless Driving                                                                                          not more than 3 points

Passing Stopped School Bus                                                                        not more than 3 points

Speeding in Excess of 75 mph                                                                      not more than 3 points

Illegal Passing                                                                                               not more than 1 point

Two Convictions of Speeding in Excess of 55 mph                                       not more than 1 point

Two Convictions of Following Too Close                                                     not more than 1 point

Two Convictions of Driving on Wrong Side of Road                                     not more than 1 point

Provided further that not more than 1 point shall be assigned by an insurer for an accident caused by the insured, while the insured's vehicle is in motion."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

This Act shall become effective September 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.