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 All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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