NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1136

SENATE BILL 441

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-309(c), G.S. 20-309(e) AND G.S. 20-311 TO PROVIDE FOR THE REVOCATION OF AN OWNER'S MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION PLATE AND SUSPENSION OF HIS OPERATOR'S OR CHAUFFEUR'S LICENSE FOR FAILURE TO PRODUCE CERTAIN RECORDS REQUESTED BY COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND FOR FAILURE TO RECERTIFY AFTER NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION AND PRESCRIBING CONDITIONS FOR REREGISTRATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Subsection (c) of G.S. 20-309, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by striking the period (.) at the end of the first sentence in line 5 of said subsection and by adding thereto the following:

"and the Department of Motor Vehicles shall revoke the owner's registration plate and suspend his operator's license for 30 days. In no case shall any vehicle, the registration of which has been revoked for failure to have financial responsibility, be reregistered in the name of the registered owner, his spouse, or any child of the spouse or any child of such owner, within less than 30 days after the date of receipt of the registration plate and operator's license by the Department. As a condition precedent to the reregistration of the vehicle, the owner shall pay the appropriate fee for a new registration plate."

Sec. 2.  Subsection (e) of G.S. 20-309, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"The Department of Motor Vehicles upon receiving notice of cancellation or termination of an owner's financial responsibility as required by this Article, shall notify such owner of such cancellation or termination, and such owner shall, to retain the registration plate for the vehicle registered or required to be registered, within 15 days from date of notice given by the Department, certify to the Department that he has financial responsibility effective on or prior to the date of such cancellation or termination. Failure by the owner to certify that he has financial responsibility as herein required shall be prima-facie evidence that no financial responsibility exists with regard to the vehicle concerned and, unless the owner's registration plate has been forwarded to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Motor Vehicles shall revoke the owner's registration plate and suspend his operator's license for 30 days. In no case shall any vehicle, the registration of which has been revoked for failure to have financial responsibility, be reregistered in the name of the registered owner, his spouse, or any child of the spouse or any child of such owner, within less than 30 days after the date of receipt of the registration plate and operator's license by the Department. As a condition precedent to the reregistration of the vehicle, the owner shall pay the appropriate fee for a new registration plate."

Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-311, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by deleting the last sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"As a condition precedent to the reregistration of the vehicle the owner shall pay the appropriate fee for a new registration plate."

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 60 days from and after ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.