NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 99

HOUSE BILL 188

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-71 TO PROHIBIT THE UNAUTHORIZED POSSESSION OF BLANK MOTOR VEHICLE CERTIFICATES OF TITLE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-71 is hereby amended by designating the existing paragraph thereunder as subsection (a) and adding a new subsection to be designated subsection (b), which shall read as follows:

"(b)      It shall be unlawful to reproduce by any means or possess a blank North Carolina motor vehicle certificate of title or facsimile thereof. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to agents or employees of the Department while acting in the course and scope of their employment or any printing company or its employees while employed by the Department to print or reproduce such certificates of title while said company or its employees are acting within the scope of such employment. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), imprisonment for not more than six months or both such fine and imprisonment."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of March, 1971.