NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 700

HOUSE BILL 421

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES OF SPECIAL REGISTRATION PLATES TO MOTOR VEHICLE OWNERS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-80 is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 20-80.  National Guard Plates. The Commissioner shall cause to be made each year a sufficient number of automobile license plates to furnish each member of the North Carolina National Guard with one thereof, said license plates to be in the same form and character as other license plates now or hereafter authorized by law to be used upon private passenger vehicles registered in this State, except that such license plates shall bear on the face thereof the following words 'National Guard.' The said license plates shall be issued only to members of the North Carolina National Guard, and for which license plates the Commissioner shall collect fees in an amount equal to the fees collected for the licensing and registering of private vehicles. The Adjutant General of North Carolina shall furnish the Commissioner annually with an estimate of the number of such distinctive plates required. In addition, the Adjutant General of North Carolina shall furnish to the Commissioner each year, prior to the date that licenses are issued, a list of the officers of the North Carolina National Guard, which said list shall contain the rank of each officer listed in the order of his seniority in the North Carolina National Guard, and the said license plates to be set aside for officer personnel shall be numbered beginning with the number two hundred and one and in numerical sequence thereafter up to and including the number sixteen hundred, according to seniority, the senior officer being issued the license bearing the numerals two hundred and one. Enlisted personnel applying for such distinctive plates shall present to the Department of Motor Vehicles proof of membership in the North Carolina National Guard by means of certificate signed by the commanding officer of applicant on forms as may be agreed upon by the Adjutant General of North Carolina and the Department of Motor Vehicles. If a holder of such distinctive license plate shall be discharged from the North Carolina National Guard under other than honorable conditions, he shall within thirty days exchange such distinctive plate for a standard plate."

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 January 1, 1968.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 6th day of June, 1967.