NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1082

SENATE BILL 619

 

 

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE RAISING OR LOWERING OF THE FRONT OR REAR END OF PASSENGER VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-135.4 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be designated "(d)" and to read as follows:

"(d)      The manufacturer's specified height of any passenger motor vehicle shall not be elevated or lowered, either in front or back, more than six inches by modification, alteration, or change of the physical structure of said vehicle without prior written approval of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

On or after January 1, 1975, no self-propelled passenger vehicle that has been so altered, modified or changed shall be operated upon any highway or public vehicular area without the prior written approval of the Commissioner."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of April, 1974.