GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
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SENATE BILL 49
Short Title: Increase Fine for Speeding/School Zones. |
(Public) |
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Sponsors: |
Senators Allran; Bingham, Brock, Hise, and Purcell. |
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Referred to: |
Judiciary II. |
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February 9, 2011
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FINE FOR SPEEDING IN A SCHOOL ZONE FROM TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS TO TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-141.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-141.1. Speed limits in school zones.
The Board of Transportation or local authorities within their
respective jurisdictions may, by ordinance, set speed limits lower than those
designated in G.S. 20-141 for areas adjacent to or near a public, private
or parochial school. Limits set pursuant to this section shall become effective
when signs are erected giving notice of the school zone, the authorized speed
limit, and the days and hours when the lower limit is effective, or by erecting
signs giving notice of the school zone, the authorized speed limit and which
indicate the days and hours the lower limit is effective by an electronic
flasher operated with a time clock. Limits set pursuant to this section may be
enforced only on days when school is in session, and no speed limit below 20
miles per hour may be set under the authority of this section. A person who
drives a motor vehicle in a school zone at a speed greater than the speed limit
set and posted under this section is responsible for an infraction and is
required to pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).two
hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.