NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 431

HOUSE BILL 832

 

 

AN ACT TO ADJUST DRIVER TRAINING AND SAFETY EDUCATION FUND FEE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-88.1 as the same appears in Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 20-88.1.  Driver Training and Safety Education Fund. — Beginning July 1, 1958, each and every passenger or property-carrying vehicle registering with the Department of Motor Vehicles, for which the registration tax is now being paid as provided in this Chapter, shall pay an annual registration tax of two dollars ($2.00) in addition to all other amounts provided in this Chapter. The revenue derived from the additional tax of two dollars ($2.00) shall be placed in a separate fund to finance a program of driver training and safety education at the public high schools of the State, and the amounts so collected shall be transferred periodically to the account of the State Board of Education. In accordance with criteria and standards approved by the State Board of Education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall organize and administer a program of driver education to be offered at the public high schools of the State for all persons of provisional license age. Such courses as shall be developed shall be made available to all physically and mentally qualified persons of provisional license age, including public school students, nonpublic school students and out-of-school youths under 18 years of age. In addition to the revenue derived from the annual additional registration tax of two dollars ($2.00), the State Board of Education shall use for such purpose all funds appropriated to it for said purpose, and may use all other funds which may become available for its use for said purpose."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 28th day of May, 1975.