NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1249

HOUSE BILL 967

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-166.1(i) AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO FURNISH UNCERTIFIED COPIES OF REPORTS TO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND TO ESTABLISH FEES TO BE CHARGED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (i) of G.S. 20-166.1, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the second paragraph to read as follows:

"The reports made by State, city, or county police, and coroners but no other reports required under this Section shall be subject to the inspection of members of the general public at all reasonable times, and the Department shall furnish a copy of any such report to any member of the general public who shall request the same, upon receipt of a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for a certified copy, or fifty cents (50˘) for an uncertified copy. The Department is authorized to furnish without charge to departments of the governments of the United States, states, counties, and cities certified or uncertified copies of such collision reports for official use. Funds received under the provisions of this subsection shall be used by the Department to defray the costs of furnishing copies of reports authorized by this Section and shall be in addition to any funds appropriated by the General Assembly."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.