Section 115C-218.20 - Civil liability and insurance requirements(a) The board of directors of a charter school may sue and be sued. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to establish reasonable amounts and types of liability insurance that the board of directors shall be required by the charter to obtain. The board of directors shall obtain at least the amount of and types of insurance required by these rules to be included in the charter. Any sovereign immunity of the charter school, of the organization that operates the charter school, or its members, officers, or directors, or of the employees of the charter school or the organization that operates the charter school, is waived to the extent of indemnification by insurance. (b) No civil liability shall attach to the State Board of Education, the Charter Schools Review Board, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or to any of their members or employees, individually or collectively, for any acts or omissions of the charter school. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 115C-218.20
Amended by 2023 N.C. Sess. Laws 110,s. 1-j, eff. 8/16/2023.Amended by 2016EX4 N.C. Sess. Laws 126, s. 18, eff. 1/1/2017.Amended by 2014 N.C. Sess. Laws 101, s. 7, eff. 8/6/2014.Amended by 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 360, s. 9.7-q, eff. 6/30/2018( s. 9.7-q was repealed by 2017 N.C. Sess. Laws 157, s. 2-n).Amended by 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 360, s. 8.43-a, eff. 7/1/2013.Amended by 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 359, s. 1, eff. 7/26/2013.Amended by 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 355, s. 1-f, eff. 7/25/2013.Amended by 2013 N.C. Sess. Laws 307, s. 1.1, eff. 7/18/2013.Amended by 2012 N.C. Sess. Laws 142, s. 7A.11.(b), eff. 7/2/2012 and applicable beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, as added by 2012 N.C. Sess. Laws 145, s. 2.5, eff. 7/1/2012.Amended by 2012 N.C. Sess. Laws 142, s. 7A.1-f, s. 7A.3-c, eff. 7/2/2012.Amended by 2012 N.C. Sess. Laws 179, s. 1-c, eff. 7/12/2012.Amended by 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 282, s. 9, eff. 6/23/2011.Amended by 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 164, s. 4, eff. 7/1/2011.Amended by 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 145, s. 7.29-b, eff. 7/1/2011.Amended by 2010 N.C. Sess. Laws 10, s. 2.(a), eff. 6/23/2010.Amended by 2009 N.C. Sess. Laws 563, s. 2, eff. 8/28/2009.Amended by 2009 N.C. Sess. Laws 239, s. 1, eff. 6/30/2009.Amended by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 345, s. 12, eff. 7/1/2008.Amended by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 323, s. 28.22A.(o), eff. 7/1/2008.Amended by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 126, s. 2, eff. 6/27/2007, and applicable beginning with the 2008-2009 school year.Amended by 2007 N.C. Sess. Laws 59, s. 2, eff. 7/1/2007.Amended by 2006 N.C. Sess. Laws 137, s. 2, eff. 7/19/2006.Amended by 2006 N.C. Sess. Laws 69, s. 3.(e), eff. 7/10/2006.Amended by 2004 N.C. Sess. Laws 0203, s. 45.(b), eff. 8/17/2004.Amended by 2004 N.C. Sess. Laws 0118, s. 3, eff. 7/1/2004.Amended by 2001 - 462, s. 1, eff. 11/16/2001.1995 (Reg. Sess., 1996), c. 731, s. 2; 1997-430, s. 5; 1997-443, s. 8.19; 1997-456, s. 55.4; 1998-212, s. 9.14A(a); 1999-243, s. 8. See 2011 N.C. Sess. Laws 93, s. 2-a, for applicability of (d)(1). See 2010 N.C. Sess. Laws 10, s. 2.(b).