GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 1069 
SENATE BILL 880 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-309 PERTAINING TO THE REREGISTRATION OF A VEHICLE AFTER REVOCATION OF THE LICENSE PLATE FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 146 of 1983 Session Laws Chapter 761 is amended by rewriting the third paragraph to read: 
"In no case shall any vehicle, the registration of which has been revoked for failure to have financial responsibility, be reregistered in the name of the registered owner, spouse, or any child of the spouse, or any child of such owner within less than 30 days after the date of receipt of the registration plate by the Division of Motor Vehicles, except that a spouse living separate and apart from the registered owner may register such vehicle immediately in such spouse's name. Additionally, as a condition precedent to the reregistration of the vehicle by the registered owner, spouse, or any child of the spouse, or any child of such owner, except a spouse living separate and apart from the registered owner, the payment of a restoration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and the appropriate fee for a new registration plate is required. Any person, firm or corporation failing to give notice of termination shall be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred dollars ($200.00) to be assessed by the Commissioner of Insurance upon a finding by the Commissioner of Insurance that good cause is not shown for such failure to give notice of termination to the Division." 
Sec. 2.  Sections 146 and 147 of 1983 Session Laws Chapter 761 are each amended in the first line by substituting "September 15, 1984" for "August 1, 1984". 
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1984.