GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 611

HOUSE BILL 628

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-129.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-129(a) is rewritten to read:

"(a)      When Vehicles Must Be Equipped.  Every vehicle upon a highway within this State shall be equipped with lighted headlamps and rear lamps as required for different classes of vehicles, and subject to exemption with reference to lights on parked vehicles as declared in G.S. 20-134:

(1)       during the period from sunset to sunrise,

(2)       when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible any person on the highway at a distance of 400 feet ahead, or

(3)       when the lack of visibility through the windshield requires the windshield wipers to be activated and the vehicle is within a school zone during the regular school hours of the school year."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.

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