GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 862
HOUSE BILL 2261

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE CHARLOTTE CITY MANAGER TO SETTLE CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY WHICH DO NOT EXCEED THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS WITHOUT GIVING PRIOR NOTICE TO THE CHARLOTTE CITY COUNCIL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 160A-167(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Subsection (b) shall not authorize any city, authority, or county to pay all or part of a claim made or civil judgment entered unless (1) notice of the claim or litigation for which the settlement of claims or payment exceeds thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) is given to the city council, authority governing board, or board of county commissioners as the case may be prior to the time that the claim is settled or civil judgment is entered, and (2) the city council, authority governing board, or board of county commissioners as the case may be shall have adopted, and made available for public inspection, uniform standards under which claims made or civil judgments entered against members or former members of the governing body of any authority, or any city, county, or authority employees or officers, or former employees or officers, shall be paid."
Sec. 2.  This act applies to the City of Charlotte only.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 1990.