GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 642

SENATE BILL 237

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE GOOD SAMARITAN PROTECTION TO PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115C-307(c) is amended between the first and second paragraphs by inserting a new paragraph to read:

"Any public school employee, authorized by the board of education or its designee to act under (i), (ii), or (iii) above, shall not be liable in civil damages for any such authorized act or for any omission relating to such act unless such act or omission amounts to gross negligence, wanton conduct or intentional wrongdoing. Any person, serving in a voluntary position at the request of or with the permission or consent of the board of education or its designee, who has been given the authority by the board of education or its designee to act under (ii) above shall not be liable in civil damages for any such authorized act or for any omission relating to such act unless the act amounts to gross negligence, wanton conduct or intentional wrongdoing."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and shall apply only to acts and omissions committed on and after this date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1985.