NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 59

HOUSE BILL 75

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-114.1 MAKING UNLAWFUL THE ACT OF DISOBEYING THE DIRECTIONS OF AN OFFICER DIRECTING TRAFFIC.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  N.C.G.S. 20-114.1 as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is amended by rewriting same to read as follows:

"G.S. 20-114.1(a). No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any law enforcement officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic, which order or direction related to the control of traffic.

(b)        In addition to other law enforcement officers, uniformed regular and volunteer firemen may direct traffic and enforce traffic law's and ordinances at the scene of fires in connection with their duties as firemen, and uniformed regular and volunteer members of a rescue squad may direct and enforce traffic laws and ordinances at the scene of accidents in connection with their duties. Except as herein provided, firemen and members of rescue squads shall not be considered law enforcement officers."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of March, 1969.