GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1496

Short Title:  DMV Collision Certification Fees.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Isenhower; Abernethy, Gray, and Grimmer.
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Referred to:  Finance.
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June 2, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY CHARGES MADE FOR CERTIFIED COPIES OF COLLISION REPORTS MAINTAINED BY THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-166.1(i) reads as rewritten:
"(i)	All collision reports, including supplemental reports, above mentioned, except those made by State, city or county police, shall be without prejudice and shall be for the use of the Division and shall not be used in any manner as evidence, or for any other purpose in any trial, civil or criminal, arising out of such collision except that the Division shall furnish upon demand of any court a properly executed certificate stating that a particular collision report has or has not been filed with the Division solely to prove a compliance with this section.
The reports made by State, city or county police and medical examiners, 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 Division shall furnish a certified copy of any such report to any member of the general public who shall request the same, upon receipt of a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for a certified copy, or the Division is authorized to furnish without charge to departments of the governments of the United States, states, counties, and cities certified copies of such collision reports for official use.
Nothing herein provided shall prohibit the Division from furnishing to interested parties only the name or names of insurers and insured and policy number shown upon any reports required under this section."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992, and applies to certified copies requested on or after that date.