GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 274 
SENATE BILL 387 

AN ACT TO EXEMPT FIRE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES FROM LIGHT-TRAFFIC ROAD WEIGHT LIMITATIONS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-118(c) is amended by adding a new subdivison (8) to read as follows: 
"(8)	A firefighting vehicle operated by any member of a municipal or rural fire department in the performance of his duties, regardless of whether members of that fire department are paid or voluntary and any vehicle of a voluntary lifesaving organization, when operated by a member of that organization while answering an official call shall be exempt from such light- traffic road limitations provided by G.S. 20-118(b)(4)." 
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1985.