NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1009

HOUSE BILL 856

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR TO EMPLOY COUNSEL IN CERTAIN CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 147-17, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by inserting after the period following the word "suit" and before the word "Upon" in line ten of the second paragraph of said Section the following:

"Whenever it shall be made to appear to the Attorney General that a civil action has been commenced against an employee of the State arising out of any action of such employee, taken in good faith in the course and scope of his employment, the Attorney General shall recommend to the Governor that counsel be employed, at State expense, to conduct the defense of the employee in such action."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1963.