NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

CHAPTER 688

HOUSE BILL 93

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-116(g) RELATING TO THE MANNER IN WHICH VEHICLES MAY BE LOADED TO ADEQUATELY PROTECT THE TRAVELING PUBLIC AGAINST DROPPING, SIFTING, BLOWING, LEAKING OR OTHERWISE ESCAPING LOADS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (g) of G.S. 20-116 is rewritten to read as follows:

"(g)       No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining such roadway.

(1)        Trucks, trailers or other vehicles when loaded with rock, gravel, stone or other similar substances which could blow, leak, sift or drop shall not be driven or moved on any highway unless the height of the load against all four walls does not extend above a horizontal line six inches below their tops when loaded at the loading point, or if not so loaded, unless the load shall be securely covered by tarpaulin or some other suitable covering, or unless it is otherwise constructed so as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, or otherwise escaping therefrom."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of June, 1971.