NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 651

HOUSE BILL 920

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO THE USE OF RED AND AMBER LIGHTS ON CERTAIN VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-130.1, as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C, is hereby amended by striking out the word "wreckers," in line 5, and by striking out the comma following the words "Interstate Commerce Commission" in the second sentence, inserting a period in lieu thereof and striking the remainder of the sentence consisting of the words, "or to maintenance or construction vehicles or equipment of the State Highway Commission engaged in performing maintenance or construction work on the roads".

Sec. 2.  Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new Section immediately following G.S. 20-130.1, to be designated as G.S. 20-130.2, and to read as follows:

"Sec. 20-130.2.  Use of Amber Lights on Certain Vehicles. All wreckers operated on the highways of the State shall be equipped with an amber colored flashing light which shall be so mounted and located as to be clearly visible in all directions from a distance of 500 feet. It shall be lawful to equip any other vehicle with a similar warning light including, but not by way of limitation, maintenance or construction vehicles or equipment of the State Highway Commission engaged in performing maintenance or construction work on the roads, maintenance or construction vehicles of any person, firm or corporation, and any other vehicles required to contain a warning light."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective January 1, 1968.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1967.