GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

SESSION LAW 2017-96

HOUSE BILL 27

AN ACT to clarify when the registration of a vehicle renewed by means of a new registration plate expires.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑66(g1) reads as rewritten:

"(g1)    Expiration of Registration by Other Means. – The registration of a vehicle renewed by means of a new registration plate expires at midnight on the last day of the year in which the registration plate was issued. It is lawful, however, to operate the vehicle on a highway through midnight February 15 of each the following year."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26^th day of June, 2017.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Roy Cooper

                                                                         Governor

Approved 1:46 p.m. this 12^th day of July, 2017