NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 896

HOUSE BILL 1016

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO EVIDENCE OF THE STATEMENTS OF CERTAIN DECEASED PERSONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 8-51 is hereby amended by adding a new sentence thereto to read as follows: "Nothing in this Section shall preclude testimony as to the identity of the deceased operator of a motor vehicle in any case brought against the deceased's estate arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle in which the deceased is alleged to have been the operator or one of the operators involved."

Sec. 2.  This Act shall not apply to pending litigation.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after the date of its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of June, 1967.