GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION
CHAPTER 274
AN ACT TO EXEMPT FIRE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES FROM LIGHT-TRAFFIC ROAD WEIGHT LIMITATIONS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 20-118(c) is amended by adding a new subdivison (8) to read as follows:
"(8) A firefighting vehicle operated by any member of a municipal or rural fire department in the performance of his duties, regardless of whether members of that fire department are paid or voluntary and any vehicle of a voluntary lifesaving organization, when operated by a member of that organization while answering an official call shall be exempt from such light- traffic road limitations provided by G.S. 20-118(b)(4)."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of May, 1985.