GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SENATE BILL 49
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FINE FOR SPEEDING IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
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. G.S. 20-141(e1) reads as rewritten:
"(e1)
Local authorities within their respective jurisdictions may authorize, by
ordinance, lower speed limits than those set in subsection (b) of this section
on school property. If the lower speed limit is being set on the grounds of a
public school, the local school administrative unit must request or consent to
the lower speed limit. If the lower speed limit is being set on the grounds of
a private school, the governing body of the school must request or consent to
the lower speed limit. Speed limits established pursuant to this subsection
shall become effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limit
are erected upon affected property. A person who drives a motor vehicle on
school property at a speed greater than the speed limit set and posted under
this subsection 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 3. This act becomes effective August 25, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of May, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Dale R. Folwell
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011