NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 639

HOUSE BILL 315

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-423(b) TO MAKE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR DRAWING OF TOWED VEHICLES CONSISTENT WITH THE STANDARDS OF TRAILERS AND SEMI-TRAILERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (b) of G.S. 20-123, as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is amended by inserting the words "or other towed vehicle" between the words "semi-trailer" and "shall" in line one thereof; and by inserting the words "or other towed vehicle" between the words "semi-trailer" and "be" in line two thereof; and by inserting the words "or other towed vehicle" between the words "semi-trailer" and "which" in line four thereof so that G.S. 204-23(b) shall read as follows:

"(b)      No trailer or semi-trailer or other towed vehicle shall be operated over the highways of the State unless such trailer or semi-trailer or other towed vehicle be firmly attached to the rear of the motor vehicle drawing same, and unless so equipped that it will not snake, but will travel in the path of the vehicle drawing such trailer or semi-trailer or other towed vehicle, which equipment shall at all times be kept in good condition."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1971.