NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 749

HOUSE BILL 1045

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE FEE FOR CERTIFIED COPIES OF DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' RECORDS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-42(b) is hereby amended by deleting the words and figures "fifty cents (50e)" appearing in line 4 thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "one dollar ($1.00)". G.S. 20-42(b), after amendment, will then read as follows:

"(b)      The Commissioner and such officers of the Department as he may designate are hereby authorized to prepare under the seal of the Department and deliver upon request a certified copy of any record of the Department, charging a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each document so certified, and every such certified copy shall be admissible in any proceeding in any court in like manner as the original thereof, without further certification. Provided that any copy of any record of the Department furnished to State, county, municipal and court officials of this State for official use shall be furnished without charge."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of July, 1971.