GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2001

 

 

SESSION LAW 2001-259

HOUSE BILL 1342

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR TIME LIMITS FOR NOTIFICATION OF LEASED VEHICLE PARKING VIOLATIONS AND THE APPLICABILITY OF THE PRIMA FACIE RULE OF EVIDENCE.

 

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20-162.1(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      The prima facie rule of evidence established by subsection (a) shall not apply to the registered owner of a leased or rented vehicle parked in violation of law when said the owner can furnish sworn evidence that the vehicle was, at the time of the parking violation, leased or rented, to another person.person or company. In such those instances, the owner of the vehicle shall, within a reasonable time after notification of the parking violation,shall furnish sworn evidence to the courts the name and address of the person or company who leased or rented the vehicle.within 30 days after notification of the violation in accordance with this subsection.

If the notification is given to the owner of the vehicle within 90 days after the date of the violation, the owner shall include in the sworn evidence the name and address of the person or company that leased or rented the vehicle. If notification is given to the owner of the vehicle after 90 days have elapsed from the date of the violation, the owner is not required to include the name or address of the lessee or renter of the vehicle in the sworn evidence."


 

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 2001.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 12:37 p.m. this 29th day of June, 2001