NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1067

HOUSE BILL 1081

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MOTOR VEHICLE ACT IN RESPECT TO THE TRANSFER OF REGISTRATION PLATES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-64, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end of the first sentence of subsection (a) thereof:

"In cases where the plate is assigned to another vehicle belonging to such owner, and is not of a like vehicle category within the meaning of G.S. 20-87 and 20-88, the owner shall surrender the plate to the Department and receive therefor a plate of the proper category, and the unexpired portion of the fee originally paid by the owner for the plate so surrendered shall be a credit toward the fee charged for the new plate of the proper category. Provided, that the owner shall not be entitled to a cash refund when the registration fee for the vehicle to which the plates are to be assigned is less than the registration fee for that vehicle to which the license plates were last assigned."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1963.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of June, 1963.