NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 800

SENATE BILL 655

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-84 TO PROVIDE FOR REGISTRATION PLATES IN NUMERICAL SEQUENCE TO THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  North Carolina G.S. 20-84 as same appears in the 1967 Cumulative Supplement to Replacement Volume 1C of the North Carolina General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph at the end thereof to read as follows:

"In lieu of all other registration requirements, the Commissioner shall each year assign to the State Highway Patrol, upon payment of one dollar ($1.00) per registration plate, a sufficient number of regular registration plates of the same letter prefix and in numerical sequence beginning with number 100 to meet the requirements of the State Highway Patrol for use on Department vehicles assigned to the State Highway Patrol. The Commander of the Patrol shall, when such plates are assigned, issue to each member of the State Highway Patrol a registration plate for use upon the Department vehicle assigned to him pursuant to G.S. 20-190 and assign a registration plate to each Department service vehicle operated by the Patrol. An index of such assignments of registration plates shall be kept at each State Highway Patrol radio station and a copy thereof shall be furnished to the Registration Division of the Department. Information as to the individual assignments of such registration plates shall be made available to the public upon request to the same extent and in the same manner as regular registration information. The Commander, when necessary, may reassign registration plates provided that such reassignment shall be made to appear upon the index required herein within twenty (20) days after such reassignment."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed to the extent necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective January 1, 1970.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1969.