NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1

HOUSE BILL 2

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-158 TO PERMIT RIGHT TURN ON RED LIGHTS AFTER STOP.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision (2) of G.S. 20-158(b) as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the word "light" and immediately before the period appearing in line six thereof, the following proviso:

"Provided, that except where prohibited by appropriate sign, vehicular traffic facing a steady red light may enter an intersection to make a right turn after coming to a complete stop and yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians and to other traffic using the intersection."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of January, 1975.