NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1031

HOUSE BILL 980

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-124, RELATING TO BRAKES REQUIRED ON TRUCKS AND TRUCK TRACTORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-124, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection immediately after (e), to be designated as subsection (ee), and to read as follows:

"(ee)     Every motor truck and tractor-truck with semitrailer attached, shall be equipped with brakes acting on all wheels, except trucks and truck-tractors having three or more axles need not have brakes on the front wheels, except that when such vehicles are equipped with at least two steerable axles, the wheels of one steerable axle need not have brakes. However, such trucks and truck-tractors must be capable of complying with the performance requirements of G.S. 20-124(e)."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 14th day of June, 1965.