NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1115

SENATE BILL 371

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-16 AND G.S. 20-19 TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO ISSUE RESTRICTED DRIVING PERMITS TO PERSONS WHO HAVE HAD THEIR DRIVERS LICENSE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Amend G.S. 20-16(d) as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes by inserting the following immediately after the word "license." and before the word "The" in line 13: "Provided further upon such a hearing, preliminary or otherwise, involving sub-sections 9 and 10 of subsection (a) of G.S. 20‑16, the Department may for good cause appearing in its discretion substitute a period of probation for suspension or for any unexpired period of suspension. Probation shall mean any written agreement between the suspended driver and a duly authorized representative of the Department of Motor Vehicles and such period of probation shall not exceed one (1) year, and any violation of the probation agreement during the probation period shall result in a suspension for the period originally provided for or for the remainder of any unexpired suspension period."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.