NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 374

HOUSE BILL 259

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE SPECIAL PARKING PRIVILEGES FOR DISABLED PERSONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is amended by inserting a new section to be designated G.S. 20-37.6 to read as follows:

"Handicapped drivers: parking privileges. — Any person who has lost the use of one or both legs or is so severely disabled as to be unable to walk without the aid of a mechanical device shall be allowed to park for unlimited periods in parking zones restricted as to the length of time parking is permitted. This section shall have no application to those zones or during times in which the stopping, parking, or standing of all vehicles is prohibited or which are reserved for special types of vehicles. As a condition to this privilege the vehicle shall display a distinguishing license plate which shall be issued for a vehicle registered to the disabled person, without additional fees but in no event for less than the normal fees applicable to standard license plates, by the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to regulations adopted by that department."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1972.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of May, 1971.