NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 107

SENATE BILL 105

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-51(6) TO ALLOW FARMERS TO TRANSPORT CORN AND SOYBEANS FROM FARM TO MARKET UPON UNLICENSED TRAILERS WHEN DRAWN BY PROPERLY LICENSED VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-51(6) is amended by inserting immediately after the word "peanuts" appearing in line 3 the following words and punctuation: "soybeans, corn, hay, tobacco"; so that the subdivision after amendment will read as follows:

"(6)      Any trailer or semi-trailer attached to and drawn by a properly licensed motor vehicle when used by a farmer, his tenant, agent, or employee in transporting unginned cotton, peanuts, soybeans, corn, hay, tobacco, silage, or irrigation pipes and equipment owned by such farmer or tenant from place to place on the same farm, from one farm to another, from farm to gin, from farm to dryer, or from farm to market, and when not operated on a for-hire basis. The term 'transporting' as used herein shall include the actual hauling of said products and all unloaded travel in connection therewith."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of March, 1971.