NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1227

SENATE BILL 946

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE PAYMENT FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY PUPILS IN SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 1024 of the Session Laws of 1977 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  The sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000), which was appropriated in Chapter 24 of the Session Laws of 1977, shall be available for the remainder of the 1977-78 fiscal year and for all of the 1978-79 fiscal year for the purpose of settling a claim by Lisa Haney, a pupil injured in a school bus accident on November 12, 1976. The claim may be paid out of the settlement funds appropriated by this act notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary; provided however, that no claim shall be paid unless a release is executed whereby any and all further claims in behalf of the injured pupil are relinquished.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.