NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 620

HOUSE BILL 940

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-183.8 TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO ENTER INTO RECIPROCITY AGREEMENTS RESPECTING SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSPECTION OF VEHICLES REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED IN THIS STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-183.8 as the same appears in the 1965 Replacement Volume 1C of the General Statutes and the 1967 Supplement thereto is amended by redesignating existing subsections (b) and (c) as (c) and (d) respectively and by inserting in proper sequence a new subsection to be designated (b) to read as follows:

"(b)      The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles is authorized to enter into agreements or arrangements with the duly authorized representatives of other jurisdictions whereby the safety equipment inspection required under this Article may be waived with respect to vehicles which have undergone substantially similar safety equipment inspections in such other jurisdictions and for which valid inspection certificates have been issued by such other jurisdictions. Such agreements or arrangements shall provide that vehicles inspected in this State and for which valid inspection certificates have been issued shall be accorded a similar privilege when subject to the laws of such other jurisdictions. Each such agreement or arrangement shall, in the judgment of the Commissioner, be in the best interest of this State and the citizens thereof and shall be fair and equitable to this State and citizens thereof; and all of the same shall be determined upon the basis and recognition of the benefits which accrue to the citizens of this State by reason of the agreement or arrangement.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.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 28th day of May, 1969.