NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 871

SENATE BILL 832

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO PRAYER FOR JUDGMENTS CONTINUED IN MOTOR VEHICLE CASES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-24(c) is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end thereof:

"In addition to the foregoing provisions and for the purpose of this Article, a third or subsequent prayer for judgment continued within any five-year period shall be considered as a final conviction and to this end all orders entering prayer for judgments continued entered by the courts shall be reported to the Department of Motor Vehicles."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1976, and shall apply only to those prayers for judgment continued which are entered after the effective date of this act.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.