NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 179

HOUSE BILL 330

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-183.8 TO ALLOW THIRTY DAY GRACE PERIOD FOR EXPIRED AUTO INSPECTION CERTIFICATES AND TO AUTHORIZE ONE WAY TRIP PERMITS TO ALLOW UNINSPECTED VEHICLES TO TRAVEL TO NEARBY INSPECTION STATIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-183.8 as the same appears in the Supplement to the 1967 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be designated as subsection (d).

"(d)      No person shall be convicted of failing to display current inspection certificate as provided under this article if he produces in Court at the time of his trial a receipt from a licensed motor vehicle inspection station showing that a valid inspection certificate was issued for the vehicle involved within thirty (30) days after expiration of the previous inspection certificate issued for the vehicle."

Sec. 2.  Subsection (b) of G.S. 20-183.2 as the same appears in the 1967 Supplement to the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes is amended by adding after subparagraph (5) a new subparagraph to be designated subparagraph (6) to read as follows:

"(6)      the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or his duly authorized agent is empowered to grant special written one way permits to operate motor vehicles without current inspection certificates solely for the purpose of moving such vehicles to an authorized inspection station to obtain the inspection required under this part."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of April, 1969.