NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 370

SENATE BILL 171

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-217 TO LIMIT THE USE OF MECHANICAL STOP SIGNALS BY OPERATORS OF SCHOOL, CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL BUSES FOR THE PURPOSE OF INDICATING THAT SUCH BUS HAS STOPPED OR IS ABOUT TO STOP FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING OR DISCHARGING PASSENGERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-217, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following at the end of the first paragraph thereof: "No operator of a school, church or Sunday school bus shall use the mechanical stop signal installed on such bus except for the purpose of indicating that such bus has stopped or is about to stop for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of April, 1965.