GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 426

HOUSE BILL 565

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-79.2 PERTAINING TO TRANSPORTER REGISTRATION PLATES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (b) of G.S. 20-79.2 is rewritten to read:

"(b)      Any person engaged in a business which owns and operates a fleet of five or more trucks licensed for 15,000 pounds gross weight or more who operates and maintains their own repair facilities may be issued one transporter plate pursuant to subsection (a) for the sole purpose of road testing their repaired trucks which will become eligible to be licensed for 15,000 pounds gross weight or more, subject to weight limitations as provided by law, within a 10 mile radius of the repair facility. A motor vehicle liability insurance shall be maintained on such trucks at all times."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of June, 1983.