NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 382

SENATE BILL 321

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 993 OF THE SESSION LAWS OF 1949 TO PROVIDE FOR BETTER SAFETY ON STREETS, ROADS AND HIGHWAYS IN PINEHURST, MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

 

WHEREAS, Pinehurst, an unincorporated village in Moore County, North Carolina, maintains at its own expense certain streets, roads and highways within the territory of said village as defined in Chapter 993 of the Session Laws of 1949, and it is desired that better safety be provided on these streets, roads and highways: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1. Vehicles Must Stop at Certain Through Streets, Roads and Highways. (a) The chief constable and other county constables appointed by the Board of Commissioners of Moore County for Pinehurst within the territorial limits defined in Chapter 993 of the Session Laws of 1949 are hereby authorized to designate main traveled or through streets, roads and highways by erecting at the entrance thereto from intersecting streets, roads and highways, signs notifying drivers of vehicles to come to a full stop before entering or crossing such designated streets, roads or highways, and whenever any such signs have been so erected, it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to fail to stop in obedience thereto.

(b)       When a stop light has been erected or installed at any intersection in the territorial limits of Pinehurst, as aforesaid, no operator of a vehicle approaching said intersection shall enter the same with said vehicle while the stop light is emitting a red light or stop signal for traffic moving on the street, road and highway and in the direction that said approaching vehicle is traveling.

Sec. 2. Erection of "Yield Right of Way" Signs. Any constable as hereinbefore provided within the territorial limits of the Village of Pinehurst, as aforesaid, is hereby authorized to designate main traveled or through streets, roads and highways by erecting at the entrance thereto from intersecting streets, roads and highways, signs notifying drivers of vehicles to yield the right of way to drivers of vehicles approaching the intersection on the main traveled or through streets, roads or highways. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, except G. S. 20-156, whenever any such yield right of way signs have been so erected, it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to enter or cross any such main traveled or through streets, roads and highways unless he shall first slow down and yield the right of way to any vehicle in movement on the main traveled or through street, road or highway which he is approaching, so as to arrive at the intersection at approximately the same time as the vehicle entering the main traveled or through street, road or highway.

Sec. 3. Any constable as herein provided within the territorial limits of the Village of Pinehurst, as aforesaid, is hereby authorized to lay out and appropriately mark cross walks, crossing streets, roads and highways for the use of pedestrians, and the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping if need be, to so yield to a pedestrian crossing the street, road or highway within any marked cross walk; and the said constable may, by painting a narrow strip, indicate the center of any street, road or highway within said territorial limits.

Sec. 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than ten dollars ($10.00) or imprisoned for not more than ten (10) days.

Sec. 5. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1963.