NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 584

SENATE BILL 422

 

 

AN ACT TO BENEFIT NORTH CAROLINA'S PRISONERS OF WAR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-81.4 is amended by adding to the caption "and ex-prisoners of war" and by redesignating existing subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d) respectively and existing subsection (d) as subsection (f) and by adding new subsections (b) and (e) to read as follows:

"(b)      From and after January 1, 1976, the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles shall provide and issue on a first-come first-serve basis to each ex-prisoner of war in this State registration and special P.O.W. registration plates for either one automobile or one pickup truck, where a pickup truck is the ex-prisoner of war's only mode of transportation and is not used for hire, and ex-prisoner of war being, for the purpose of this subsection, an American service person captured and held prisoner by forces hostile to the United States while serving in the armed forces of the United States in World War I, World War II, Korean service or Vietnam service, who was a resident of North Carolina at the time he entered that period of service during which he became a prisoner of war.

(e)        The registration plate provided for by this section for ex-prisoners of war shall be issued at no additional fee and only upon proof as may be required by the Department of Motor Vehicles as to ex-prisoners of war's status and proof of financial responsibility as required by the motor vehicle laws of North Carolina."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1975.