NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 204

HOUSE BILL 607

 

 

AN ACT TO EXEMPT CHARTER BUS OPERATIONS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS GROUPS FROM RATE REGULATION AND ROUTE CERTIFICATION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 62-260 is amended by adding a new subdivision (18) to read:

"(18)    Charter parties, as defined by this subdivision when such charter party is sponsored or organized by, and used by, any organized senior citizen group whose members are sixty (60) years of age or older. Such charter party shall be subject to subsections (f) and (g) of this section. 'Charter party', for the purpose of this subdivision, means a group of persons who, pursuant to a common purpose and under a single contract, and at a fixed charge for the vehicle, have acquired the exclusive use of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle to travel together as a group from a point of origin to a specified destination or for a particular itinerary, either agreed upon in advance or modified by the chartering group after having left the place of origin."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of March, 1979.