NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 301

SENATE BILL 340

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-279.14 TO PROVIDE THAT DRIVING PRIVILEGES WILL NOT BE SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF AN UNSATISFIED JUDGMENT AFTER THE JUDGMENT HAS EXISTED FOR 10 YEARS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-279.14, as the same appears in the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 20-279.14.  Suspension to continue until judgments satisfied. — Such license and nonresident's operating privilege shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any such license be thereafter issued in the name of such person, including any such person not previously licensed, unless and until every such judgment:

(1)        is stayed, or

(2)        is satisfied in full, or

(3)        is subject to the exemptions stated in G.S. 20-279.13 or G.S. 20-279.16, or

(4)        is barred from enforcement by the Statute of Limitations pursuant to G.S. 1‑47,

(5)        is discharged in bankruptcy."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of May, 1975.