GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

 

 

SESSION LAW 2013-92

SENATE BILL 433

 

 

AN ACT to prevent certain property-carrying vehicles from paying for a declared weight that exceeds the statutory allowance.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20-88(m) reads as rewritten:

"(m)      Any vehicle weighing greater than the gross weight limits found in G.S. 20-118(b),G.S. 20-118(b)(3), as authorized by G.S. 20-118(c)(12), (c)(14), and (c)(15), must be registered for the maximum weight allowed for the vehicle configuration as listed in G.S. 20-118(b). A vehicle driven in violation of this subsection is subject to the axle group penalties set out in G.S. 20-118(e). The penalties apply to the amount by which the vehicle's maximum gross weight as listed in G.S. 20-118(b) exceeds its declared weight."

SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 2013.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:28 p.m. this 12th day of June, 2013