GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 125
AN ACT TO ALLOW BOTH WORD MESSAGES AND SYMBOLS TO BE USED FOR PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-172(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The Board of Transportation, with reference to State highways, and local authorities, with reference to highways under their jurisdiction, are hereby authorized to erect or install, at intersections or other appropriate places, special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words or symbols 'WALK' or 'DON'T WALK' as a part of a system of traffic-control signals or devices."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of May, 1987.