NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 94

HOUSE BILL 99

 

 

AN ACT TO REINSTATE EXEMPTIONS FROM MOTORCYCLE REQUIREMENTS FOR "MOPED" OPERATION.

 

Whereas, Section 3 of Chapter 1143 of the 1973 Session Laws (2nd Session, 1974) (Senate Bill 995, 1973 Session, 2nd Session, 1974) exempting operation of bicycles with helper motors of less than one brake horsepower from requirement to wear helmets and to burn lights on bicycle when in operation by excluding such vehicles from the definition of motorcycles was, by oversight, deleted upon ratification of House Bill 328 (Chapter 1330, 1973 Session, 2nd Session 1974) four days after the ratification of Chapter 1143; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-4.01(27)d. as same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by striking the word "and" appearing immediately before the words "three- wheeled" appearing in line five and by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following: "and bicycles with helper motors rated less than one brake horsepower which produce only ordinary pedaling speeds up to a maximum of 20 miles per hour."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1975.