NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 148

HOUSE BILL 490

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-116(j) TO ELIMINATE SPECIAL PERMITS FOR THE OPERATION OF SELF-PROPELLED FARM EQUIPMENT AND TO REQUIRE THAT FLAGMEN UTILIZE VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-116(j) is hereby amended by adding a comma in the first line thereof following the word "self-propelled" and then inserting the word "pulled" immediately before the word "or".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-116(j) is hereby amended by striking the words ", and provided, that such combines or equipment may be operated on numbered federal or State highways exclusive of the Interstate System, only by special permit as provided in G.S. 20-119; permits issued in compliance with G.S. 20-119 for equipment covered under this section may be on an annual basis and shall expire on January 1 of the year next following the year of issuance" as the same appear in lines 4 through 9 of said subsection and by striking the word ", further," immediately succeeding the word "Provided" and preceding the word "that" in line 9 of said subsection.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-116(j) is also amended by striking the words "; and said equipment shall travel only on routes designated by the special permit required under this section and for distances not to exceed 10 miles" as the same appear in lines 6 through 8 in subdivision (2) of said subsection.

Sec. 4.  G.S. 20-116(j) is further amended by striking the words "requiring special permit to be operated on permissible or designated highways," in lines 1 and 2 of subdivision (3) thereof and by further striking the remainder of subdivision (3) immediately following the word "flagman" and beginning with the word "either" in line 7 of said subdivision and substituting in lieu thereof the following "in a vehicle having mounted thereon an appropriate warning light or flag." so that G.S. 20-116(j)(3) as rewritten shall read as follows:

"(3)      Equipment by this section, which by necessity must travel more than 10 miles or where by nature of the terrain or obstacles the flags referred to in subdivision (2) are not visible from both directions for 300 feet at any point along the proposed route, must be preceded at a distance of 300 feet and followed at a distance of 300 feet by a flagman in a vehicle having mounted thereon an appropriate warning light or flag."

Sec. 5.  When said equipment is causing a delay in traffic, the operator of said equipment shall move the equipment off the paved portion of the highway at the nearest practical location until the vehicles following said equipment have passed.

Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of April, 1975.