NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 911
HOUSE BILL 483

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL FROM USING AIRPLANES TO DISCOVER PERSONS VIOLATING CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLE LAWS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The State Highway Patrol is hereby prohibited from using airplanes to discover violations of Part 10 of Article 3 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes relating to operation of motor vehicles and rules of the road. This Act shall not prohibit the use of airplanes in discovering persons engaged in unlawful racing on streets and highways and to those persons who fail to stop in the event of accidents and render assistance and furnish information with respect thereto to the nearest available peace officer. Nor shall this Act prohibit the use of airplanes for observing unusually heavy congested traffic situations, such as occur during the State Fair, football games, and other such events, for the purpose of full coordination of traffic controls.
Sec. 1 1/2.  The Department of Motor Vehicles shall not purchase or use additional airplanes without the express authorization of the General Assembly.
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1963.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1963.