NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 38
HOUSE BILL 62

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA TO DESIGNATE CERTAIN PERSONS AS AGENTS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING DRIVERS' LICENSES FOR MANDATORY REVOCATIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-24, subsection (a), as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 10 of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to said subsection (a) to read as follows:
"The clerks of court, assistant clerks of court and deputy clerks of court in which any person is convicted, and as a result thereof the revocation or suspension of the operator's or chauffeur's license of such person is required under the provisions of this Chapter, are hereby designated as agents of the Department of Motor Vehicles for the purpose of receiving all operators' and chauffeurs' licenses required to be surrendered under this Section, and are hereby authorized to and shall give to such licensee a dated receipt for any such license surrendered, such receipt to be upon such form as may be approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. The original of such receipt shall be mailed forthwith to the Driver License Division of the Department of Motor Vehicles together with the operator's or chauffeur's license. Any operator's or chauffeur's license, which has been surrendered and for which a receipt has been issued as herein required, shall be revoked or suspended as the case may be as of the date shown upon the receipt issued to such person."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after July 1, 1965.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of March, 1965.