GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION
S.L. 1997-377
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-7(i1) reads as rewritten:
"(i1) Restoration Fee. - Any person
whose drivers license has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of this
Chapter, other than G.S. 20-17(2), shall pay a restoration fee of twenty-five
dollars ($25.00). A person whose drivers license has been revoked under G.S.
20-17(2) shall pay a restoration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) until the end of
the fiscal year in which the cumulative total amount of fees deposited under
this subsection in the General Fund exceeds five ten million
dollars ($5,000,000), ($10,000,000), and shall pay a restoration
fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) thereafter. The fee shall be paid to the
Division prior to the issuance to such person of a new drivers license or the
restoration of the drivers license. The restoration fee shall be paid to the
Division in addition to any and all fees which may be provided by law. This
restoration fee shall not be required from any licensee whose license was
revoked or voluntarily surrendered for medical or health reasons whether or not
a medical evaluation was conducted pursuant to this Chapter. The twenty-five
dollar ($25.00) fee, and the first twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the
fifty-dollar ($50.00) fee, shall be deposited in the Highway Fund. The
remaining twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the fifty-dollar ($50.00) fee shall
be deposited in the General Fund of the State. The Office of State Budget and
Management shall certify to the Department of Transportation and the General
Assembly when the cumulative total amount of fees deposited in the General Fund
under this subsection exceeds five ten million dollars ($5,000,000),
($10,000,000), and shall annually report to the General Assembly the
amount of fees deposited in the General Fund under this subsection.
It is the intent of the General Assembly to annually
appropriate the funds deposited in the General Fund under this subsection to
the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina to be used for the
Center for Alcohol Studies Endowment at The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, but not to exceed this cumulative total of five ten million
dollars ($5,000,000). ($10,000,000)."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of July, 1997.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 8:35 a.m. this 7th day of August, 1997