NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 42

SENATE BILL 3

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-7 TO ALLOW A VOLUNTEER MEMBER OF A FIRE DEPARTMENT TO OPERATE A FIRE-FIGHTING VEHICLE WITH A CLASS C LICENSE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. G.S. 20-7(a)(3) as amended by Section 3 of Chapter 667, Session Laws of 1979, is amended by deleting the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following new sentence:

"Class 'C' which entitles a licensee to drive a single vehicle weighing 30,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or less; any such vehicle towing a vehicle weighing 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or less; a church bus, farm bus or activity bus operated for a nonprofit organization when the activity bus is operated for a nonprofit purpose; and a fire-fighting vehicle or combination of vehicles (regardless of gross vehicle weight) when operated by any volunteer member of a municipal or rural fire department in the performance of his duty."

Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of February, 1981.