NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1171

SENATE BILL 420

 

 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO ISSUE TEMPORARY LEARNERS' PERMITS TO MINORS UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE IN CERTAIN INSTANCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-11, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by designating the present Section as subsection (a) and adding at the end thereof a new subsection (b) to read as follows: "(b) The Department may grant an application for a temporary learner's permit of any minor under the age of sixteen, who otherwise meets the requirements for licensing under this Section, when such application is signed by both the applicant and his or her parent or guardian.

Such temporary learner's permit shall entitle the applicant, while having such permit in his immediate possession, to drive a motor vehicle upon the highways during daylight hours for a period of thirty days or until he becomes sixteen years of age, whichever is the longer period, while such minor is accompanied by a parent or guardian who is licensed under this Chapter to operate a motor vehicle and who is actually occupying a seat beside the driver. Provided, however, a learner's permit as herein provided shall be issued only to those applicants who have reached the age of fifteen and one-half years. In the event a minor issued a temporary learner's permit under this subsection operates a motor vehicle in violation of any provision herein, the learner's permit shall be cancelled."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.