GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 112
AN ACT TO SIMPLIFY THE DESIGNATION OF TRUCK ROUTES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-116(h) reads as rewritten:
"(h) Whenever there exist
two highways of the primary State highway system of approximately the
same distance between two or more points, the Department of Transportation shall
have authority may, when in the opinion of the Department of
Transportation, based upon engineering and traffic investigation, safety will
be promoted or the public interest will be served thereby, to served,
designate one of said the highways the 'truck route' between said
those points, and to prohibit the use of the other highway by heavy
trucks or other vehicles of a gross vehicle weight or axle load limit in excess
of a designated maximum. In such instances the highways so selected
for heavy vehicle traffic shall be so designated as 'truck routes' by
signs conspicuously posted thereon, posted, and the highways upon
which heavy vehicle traffic is prohibited shall likewise be so designated
by signs conspicuously posted thereon showing the maximum gross vehicle
weight or axle load limits authorized for said those highways.
The operation of any vehicle whose gross vehicle weight or axle load exceeds
the maximum limits shown on such signs over the posted highway thus
posted shall constitute a misdemeanor: Provided, that nothing herein
in this subsection shall prohibit a truck or other motor vehicle
whose gross vehicle weight or axle load exceeds that prescribed for such those
highways from using such highway them when the its destination
of such vehicle is located solely upon said that highway,
road or street: Provided, further, that nothing herein in this
subsection shall prohibit passenger vehicles or other light vehicles from
using any highways so designated for heavy truck traffic."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of May, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives