NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 685

HOUSE BILL 544

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20‑88 TO PROVIDE THAT THE PRINCIPAL FEE FOR THE REGISTRATION OF PROPERTY‑CARRYING VEHICLES OPERATED IN COMBINATION BE PLACED ON THE POWER UNIT OF SUCH COMBINATION AND THAT A FEE OF $3.00 BE IMPOSED ON TRAILERS AND SEMI‑TRAILERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20‑88(a) is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(a)       Determination of weight — For the purpose of licensing, the weight of self‑propelled property‑carrying vehicles shall be the empty weight and heaviest load to be transported, as declared by the owner or operator; provided, that any determination of weight shall be made only in units of one thousand pounds or major fraction thereof, weights of over five hundred pounds counted as one thousand and weights of five hundred pounds or less disregarded. The declared gross weight of self‑propelled property‑carrying vehicles operated in conjunction with trailers or semitrailers shall include the empty weight of the vehicles to be operated in the combination and the heaviest load to be transported by such combination at any time during the registration period."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20‑88(b) is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(b)      There shall be paid to the Department annually, as of the first day of January, for the registration and licensing of self‑propelled property‑carrying vehicles, fees according to the following classification and schedule and upon the following conditions:

 

"Schedule of Weights and Rates

"Rates Per Hundred Pounds Gross Weight

Common

Carrier of

Private                 Contract               Property

Farmer             Hauler                   Carrier               (Deposit)

Not over 4,500 pounds...........   $0.15              $0.30                     $0.75                  $0.60

4,501 to 8,500

pounds inclusive.......................       .20                  .40                         .75                      .60

8,501 to 12,500

pounds inclusive.......................       .25                  .50                         1.00                    .60

12,501 to 16,500

pounds inclusive.......................       .35                  .70                         1.15                    .60

Over 16,500 pounds...............       .40                  .80                         1.40                    .60

(1)        The minimum fee for a vehicle licensed under this subsection shall be ten dollars ($10.00) at the farmer rate and twelve dollars ($12.00) at the private hauler, contract carrier and common carrier rates.

(2)        The term 'farmer' as used in this subsection means any person engaged in the raising and growing of farm products on a farm in North Carolina not less than ten acres in area, and who does not engage in the business of buying products for resale.

(3)        License plates issued at the farmer rate shall be placed upon trucks and truck tractors that are operated exclusively in the carrying or transportation of applicant's farm products, raised or produced on his farm, and farm supplies and not operated in hauling for hire.

(4)        Farm products means any food crop, cattle, hogs, poultry, dairy products, flower bulbs (but does not mean nursery products) and other agricultural products designed to be used for food purposes, including in the term farm products also cotton, tobacco, logs, bark, pulpwood, tannic acid wood and other forest products.

(5)        The Department shall issue necessary rules and regulations providing for the recall, transfer, exchange or cancellation of 'farmer' plates, when vehicle bearing such plates shall be sold or transferred."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 20‑88(c) is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"(c)       There shall be paid to the Department annually, as of the first day of January, for the registration and licensing of trailers or semitrailers, three dollars ($3.00) for any part of the license year for which said license is issued."

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect on and after January 1, 1962.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of June, 1961.