NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 438

HOUSE BILL 1025

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT VEHICLES TRANSPORTING HUMAN TISSUES AND ORGANS TO USE WARNING DEVICES AND RED LIGHTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-125(b) as same appears in the 1975 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 1C of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the word "association" and immediately before the word "and" appearing in line 5 the words and punctuation, ", vehicles designed, equipped and used exclusively for the transportation of human tissues and organs for transplantation,".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-130.1 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the word "ambulances" and immediately before the word "fire-fighting" appearing in line 5 the words and punctuation, ", vehicles designed, equipped and used exclusively for the transportation of human tissues and organs for transplantation,".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-156(b) of the General Statutes, as contained in Section 4 of Chapter 52 of the 1977 Session Laws, is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the word "ambulances" and immediately before the word "and" appearing in the first sentence thereof the words and punctuation, ", vehicles designed, equipped and used exclusively for the transportation of human tissues and organs for transplantation"; and by inserting immediately after the word "ambulance" and immediately before the word "or" in the second sentence the words and punctuation, "or vehicles designed, equipped and used exclusively for the transportation of human tissues and organs for transplantation".

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1977.