GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 608

HOUSE BILL 370

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE LAW THAT APPLIES TO THE EXEMPTION OF FARM VEHICLES FROM THE MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION PROVISIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-51(5) reads as rewritten:

"(5)      Farm tractors equipped with rubber tires and trailers or semitrailers when attached thereto and when used by a farmer, his tenant, agent, or employee in transporting his own farm implements, farm supplies, or farm products from place to place on the same farm, from one farm to another, from farm to market, or from market to farm.  This exemption shall extend also to any tractor, implement of husbandry, and trailer or semitrailer while on any trip within a radius of 10 miles from the point of loading, provided that the vehicle does not exceed a speed of 35 miles per hour.  This section shall not be construed as granting any exemption to farm tractors, implements of husbandry, and trailers or semitrailers which are operated on a for-hire basis, whether money or some other thing of value is paid or given for the use of such tractors, implements of husbandry, and trailers or semitrailers."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of July, 1987.