GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION
CHAPTER 290
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-217(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The driver of any
vehicle upon approaching from any direction on the same street or highway any
school bus (including privately owned buses transporting children and school
buses transporting senior citizens under G.S. 115C-243), while the bus is
displaying its mechanical stop signal, signal or flashing red
stoplights, and is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging
passengers, shall bring his vehicle to a full stop before passing or attempting
to pass the bus, and shall remain stopped until the mechanical stop signal has
been withdrawn or until withdrawn, the flashing red stoplights have
been turned off, and the bus has moved on."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1991.
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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives