GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-299
HOUSE BILL 1022

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE UNLAWFUL USE OF A DRIVERS LICENSE, A LEARNER'S PERMIT, OR A SPECIAL IDENTIFICATION CARD ISSUED BY THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-30 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-30.  Violations of license or learner's permit provisions.
It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any of the following acts:
(1)	To display or cause to be displayed or to have in possession a driver's license or learner's permit, knowing the same to be fictitious or to have been canceled, revoked, suspended or altered.
(2)	To counterfeit, sell, lend to, or knowingly permit the use of, by one not entitled thereto, a driver's license or learner's permit.
(3)	To display or to represent as one's own a license or learner's permit not issued to the person so displaying same.
(4)	To fail or refuse to surrender to the Division upon demand any driver's license or learner's permit that has been suspended, canceled or revoked as provided by law.
(5)	To use a false or fictitious name or give a false or fictitious address in any application for a driver's license or learner's permit, or any renewal or duplicate thereof, or knowingly to make a false statement or knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application, or for any person to procure, or knowingly permit or allow another to commit any of the foregoing acts.  Any license or learner's permit procured as aforesaid shall be void from the issuance thereof, and any moneys paid therefor shall be forfeited to the State. 
(6)	To photostat or otherwise reproduce a driver's license or learner's permit or to possess a driver's license or learner's permit which has been photostated or otherwise reproduced, unless such photostat or other reproduction was authorized by the Commissioner.
(7)	To sell or offer for sale any reproduction or facsimile or simulation of a driver's license or learner's permit.  The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to agents or employees of the Division while acting in the course and scope of their employment.  Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a Class I felony.
(8)	To possess more than one commercial drivers license or to possess a commercial drivers license and a regular drivers license.  Any commercial drivers license other than the one most recently issued is subject to immediate seizure by any law enforcement officer or judicial official.  Any regular drivers license possessed at the same time as a commercial drivers license is subject to immediate seizure by any law enforcement officer or judicial official.
(9)	To present, display, or use a drivers license or learner's permit that contains a false or fictitious name in the commission or attempted commission of a felony.  Any person violating the provisions of this subdivision shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
Section 2.  G.S. 20-37.8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-37.8.  Fraudulent use prohibited.
(a)	It shall be unlawful for any person to use a false or fictitious name or give a false or fictitious address in any application for a special identification card or knowingly to make a false statement or knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application or to obtain or possess more than one such card for a fraudulent purpose or knowingly to permit or allow another to commit any of the foregoing acts.
(b)	It shall be unlawful for any person to present, display, or use a special identification card which contains a false or fictitious name in  the commission or attempted commission of a felony.
(c)	A violation of subsection (a) of this section shall constitute a Class 2 misdemeanor. A violation of subsection (b) of this section shall constitute a Class I felony."
Section 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1999.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 1999.

s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 10:40 p.m. this 14th day of July, 1999