Title: S.L. 1975-79
Category: Introduced Bills

General Assembly of North Carolina	1975

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION

CHAPTER 79
HOUSE BILL 298

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO GRANT TEMPORARY OPERATORS' PERMITS TO CERTAIN MINORS.

Whereas, minors between the ages of 16 years and 18 years moving into North Carolina holding a valid motor vehicle operator's license from their prior state of residence but not having had the driver training courses required under G.S. 20-88.1 cannot obtain a learner's permit or operator's license under North Carolina law until the requirements for driver education are met, and
Whereas, the driver education courses required cannot be obtained by such minors in North Carolina in their new city or town of residence due to scheduling by the schools available to them and there is no commercial driving school located therein, and
Whereas, the motor vehicle laws of North Carolina have no provision under which such minor can be granted relief from the problem hereinabove set out; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-11 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be designated subsection (c) and to read as follows:
"(c)	The Department may, upon satisfactory proof that a minor between the ages of 16 and 18 years has become a resident of North Carolina and holds a valid motor vehicle operator's license from his prior state of residence but has not completed a course in driver education which meets the requirements of this State, grant to such minor a temporary operator's permit under such terms and conditions as shall be deemed necessary by the Department to allow the minor to operate a motor vehicle in this State in order to obtain the driver education courses necessary for operator's license in North Carolina. Every application for a temporary operator's permit shall be made upon the approved form furnished by the Department. A temporary operator's permit issued pursuant to this section shall be subject to all provisions of law relating to operator's license."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of March, 1975.

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