NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 133

HOUSE BILL 166

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-16.1 TO REQUIRE SUSPENSION OF DRIVERS' LICENSES FOR SPEEDING IN EXCESS OF FIFTEEN MILES PER HOUR OVER ANY STATED OR POSTED SPEED LIMIT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-16.1, as the same appears in the 1961 Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, the Department shall suspend for a period of thirty days the license of any operator or chauffeur without preliminary hearing on receiving a record of such operator's or chauffeur's conviction of exceeding by more than fifteen miles per hour the speed limit, either within or outside the corporate limits of a municipality, if such person was also driving at a speed in excess of fifty-five miles per hour at the time of the offense.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  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 30th day of March, 1965.