NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 284

HOUSE BILL 277

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-84 TO PROVIDE FOR ISSUANCE OF PERMANENT MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION PLATES TO THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-84, as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is amended by inserting at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows:

"The Department of Motor Vehicles shall issue to the American National Red Cross, upon application of any local chapter thereof and payment of a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each plate, a permanent registration plate, which need not be thereafter renewed, for all disaster vans, bloodmobiles, handivans, and such sedans and station wagons as are used for emergency or disaster work, and operated by a local chapter in this State in the business of, the American National Red Cross. Such registration plate shall be valid only for the vehicle for which issued and then only so long as the vehicle shall be operated as above described. In the event of transfer of ownership to any other person, firm or corporation, or transfer or reassignment of any vehicle bearing such registration plate to any chapter or association of the American National Red Cross in any other state, territory or country, the registration plate assigned to such vehicle shall be surrendered to the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on December 31, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1967.