GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 790
     

 
Short Title:	Increase Damage Limits for MV Accidents.	()	
Sponsors:	Representative Starnes.	
Referred to:	Insurance.	
March 26, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE DAMAGE AMOUNTS ON DEFINED MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 58‑36‑75(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The subclassification plan promulgated pursuant to G.S. 58‑36‑65(b) may provide for separate surcharges for major, intermediate, and minor accidents. A "major accident" is an at‑fault accident that results in either (i) bodily injury or death or (ii) only property damage of four thousand dollars ($4,000) or more. An "intermediate accident" is an at‑fault accident that results in only property damage of more than three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) but less than four thousand dollars ($4,000). A "minor accident" is an at‑fault accident that results in only property damage of three thousand dollars ($3,000) or less. The subclassification plan may also exempt certain minor accidents from the Facility recoupment surcharge. The Bureau shall assign varying Safe Driver Incentive Plan point values and surcharges for bodily injury in at‑fault accidents that are commensurate with the severity of the injury, provided that the point value and surcharge assigned for the most severe bodily injury shall not exceed the point value and surcharge assigned to a major accident involving only property damage."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2001.