NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 486

SENATE BILL 115

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE 2 OF CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA REGARDING CERTAIN OUT-OF-STATE TRAFFIC OFFENSES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-26(a) is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence so that G.S. 20-26(a), after amendment, will read as follows:

"(a)       The Department shall keep a record of proceedings and orders pertaining to all operator's and chauffeur's licenses granted, refused, suspended or revoked. The Department shall keep records of convictions as defined in G.S. 20-24(c) occurring outside North Carolina only for the offenses of exceeding a stated speed limit of 55 miles per hour or more by more than 15 miles per hour, driving while license suspended or revoked, careless and reckless driving, engaging in pre-arranged speed competition, engaging wilfully in speed competition, hit and run driving resulting in damage to property, unlawfully passing a stopped school bus, illegal transportation of intoxicating liquors, and the offenses included in G.S. 20-17."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-23 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new sentence so that G.S. 20-23, after amendment will read as follows:

"§ 20-23.  Suspending resident's license upon conviction in another state. — The Department is authorized to suspend or revoke the license of any resident of this State upon receiving notice of the conviction as defined in G.S. 20-24(c) of such person in another state of the offenses hereinafter enumerated which, if committed in this State, would be grounds for the suspension or revocation of the license of an operator or chauffeur. The provisions of this section shall apply only for the offenses as set forth in G.S. 20-26(a)."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of law in conflict with the provisions of this act are repealed.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of June, 1971.