NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 707

HOUSE BILL 1497

AN ACT TO DELETE THE MANDATORY JURY REQUIREMENTS FOR DAMAGES UNDER G.S. 75-16.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 75-16, as it appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 2C of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the words "by a jury" in the sixth line thereof.

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1977.