NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 704

HOUSE BILL 985

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE AND MARK PULL-OFF AREAS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 136 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section to read as follows:

"§ 136-18.4.  Provision and marking of 'pull-off' areas. — The Board of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed (i) to provide as needed within its right-of-way, adjacent to long sections of two-lane primary highway having a steep uphill grade or numerous curves, areas on which buses, trucks and other slow moving vehicles can pull over so that faster moving traffic may proceed unimpeded and (ii) to erect appropriate and adequate signs along such sections of highway and at the pull-off areas. A driver of a truck, bus, or other slow moving vehicle who fails to use an area so provided and thereby impedes faster moving traffic following his vehicle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisoned not more than 30 days or both."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1975.