NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 692

HOUSE BILL 804

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON SUSTAINING BODILY INJURY SHALL BE FURNISHED A COPY OF ANY STATEMENT MADE BY HIM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Any person sustaining bodily injury who shall give a written or recorded statement of the facts and circumstances surrounding his injury shall, upon his written request or the written request of an attorney acting in his behalf, be furnished a copy of all statements made by him in their entirety.

Sec. 2.  Such copies as are furnished pursuant to this Act shall be furnished at the expense of the person, firm or corporation at whose direction the statement was taken. If any person, firm or corporation taking the statement of any person sustaining bodily injury shall fail to comply with the requirements of Section 1 of this Act, then such statement or statements as have not been furnished shall be inadmissible in any court or administrative body for any purpose. In addition, no questions on cross-examination by the person, firm or corporation at whose direction the statement was taken shall be competent or otherwise admissible when based, in any manner, upon such statement or statements which have not been furnished in compliance with this provision.

Sec. 3.  It is further declared that an injured person who has given such a statement should properly be furnished a copy thereof, without request, within ten (10) days after a written statement has been taken or a recorded statement has been transcribed.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall become effective on June 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1969.