NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 183

SENATE BILL 73

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-7(f) TO PERMIT A PERSON TEMPORARILY RESIDING OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA TO RENEW AN OPERATOR'S LICENSE BY MAIL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (f) of G.S. 20-7, as the same appears in the 1967 Supplement to the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is amended by deleting the last paragraph thereof, and by inserting in lieu thereof, the following language:

"Any person serving in the armed forces of the United States on active duty and holding a valid operator's license properly issued under this section and stationed outside the State of North Carolina may renew his license by making application to the Department by mail. Any other person, except a nonresident as defined in this article, who holds a valid operator's license issued under this section and who is temporarily residing outside North Carolina, may also renew by making application to the Department by mail. For purposes of this Section 'temporarily' shall mean not less than thirty days continuous absence from North Carolina. In either case, the Department may waive the examination and color photograph ordinarily required for the renewal of an operator's license, and may impose in lieu thereof such conditions as it may deem appropriate to each particular application; provided that such license shall expire thirty days after licensee returns to North Carolina, and such license shall be designated as temporary."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of April, 1969.