NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 902

HOUSE BILL 1095

AN ACT TO INCREASE DRIVER LICENSE POINTS FOR SPEED VIOLATIONS IN SCHOOL ZONE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Schedule of Point Values appearing in G.S. 20-16(c) is hereby amended by adding the following words and numbers: "Speeding in a school zone in excess of the posted school zone speed limit……3."

Sec. 2.  A new G.S. 20-141.1 is hereby added to Chapter 20, to read as follows:

"§ 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. 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."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.