NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 610

HOUSE BILL 769

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-116 AND G.S. 20-118 RELATING TO THE HEIGHT, LENGTH AND GROSS WEIGHT OF VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (c) of G.S. 20-116 is hereby amended by striking from line one thereof the word "twelve" and substituting therefor the word "thirteen"; by striking the comma (,) following the word "inches" in line two thereof and substituting a period (.) therefor, and by deleting the following language from said subsection (c): "except automobile transports with a gross weight of not more than forty thousand pounds, which said automobile transports, unladen or with load, may have a height not exceeding thirteen feet, six inches."

Sec. 2.  Subsection (e) of G.S. 20-116 is hereby amended by striking from line three thereof the word "fifty" and substituting therefor the word "fifty-five".

Sec. 3.  Subsection (j) of G.S. 20-118 is hereby amended by striking from line two thereof the words "sixty-two thousand" and substituting therefor the words "sixty-four thousand".

Sec. 4.  Subsection (j) of G.S. 20-118 is hereby further amended by striking the period (.) at the end thereof and adding the following:

"; provided, the gross weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles having five or more axles shall not exceed seventy thousand pounds. For the purpose of determining gross weight, no axle shall be considered unless the wheels thereof are equipped with adequate brakes."

Sec. 5.  G.S. 20-118 is hereby amended by striking the period (.) at the end of the first paragraph following subsection (1) thereof and adding the following:

", except that under no circumstances shall the total weight, including tolerance, exceed seventy-three thousand, two hundred eighty pounds."

Sec. 6.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 7.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1963.