GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 385

HOUSE BILL 1001

 

AN ACT TO ELIMINATE THE NECESSITY OF A CITED PERSON SIGNING THE TRAFFIC CITATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 15A-302(d) is rewritten to read:

"(d)      Service. A copy of the citation shall be delivered to the person cited who may sign a receipt on the original which shall thereafter be filed with the clerk by the officer. If the cited person refuses to sign, the officer shall certify delivery of the citation by signing the original, which shall thereafter be filed with the clerk. Failure of the person cited to sign the citation shall not constitute grounds for his arrest or the requirement that he post a bond."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1985.