GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
SESSION LAW 2015-29
HOUSE BILL 434
AN ACT to provide that medical recertification is not required for renewals of removable windshield handicapped placards if the person is certified as totally and permanently disabled.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑37.6(c1) reads as rewritten:
"(c1) Application and
Renewal; Physician's Certification. – The initial application for a
distinguishing license plate, removable windshield placard, or temporary
removable windshield placard shall be accompanied by a certification of a
licensed physician, ophthalmologist, or optometrist or of the Division of
Services for the Blind that the applicant is handicapped. The application for a
temporary removable windshield placard shall contain additional certification
to include the period of time the certifying authority determines the applicant
will have the disability. Distinguishing license plates shall be renewed
annually, but subsequent applications shall not require a medical certification
that the applicant is handicapped. Removable windshield placards shall be
renewed every five years, andand, except for a person certified as totally
and permanently disabled at the time of the initial application or a prior renewal
under this subsection, the renewal shall require a medical recertification
that the person is handicapped. Temporary removable windshield placards shall
expire no later than six months after issuance."
SECTION 2. The Division of Motor Vehicles shall develop or update the appropriate forms and procedures necessary to implement this act.
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this act is effective when this act becomes law. The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 2016.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of May, 2015.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Tim Moore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved 11:52 a.m. this 21st day of May, 2015