NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 445

HOUSE BILL 880

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT, FOR PURPOSES OF THE DRIVER LICENSE ARTICLE OF CHAPTER 20, A DEFENDANT WHO HAS FAILED TO APPEAR OVER 90 DAYS FOR A TRAFFIC OFFENSE SHALL BE DEEMED CONVICTED.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-24(c) is hereby amended to add a sentence as follows:

"Also, a defendant shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as having been convicted of any offense under this Chapter as to which he:

(1)        Has been served with process under Article 17, Criminal Process, Chapter 15A of the General Statutes;

(2)        Has failed to appear upon due call of the case; and

(3)        Has failed within 90 days thereafter to submit himself to the jurisdiction of the court to answer the charge."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of May, 1975.