NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 257

HOUSE BILL 200

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-125 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF BLUE WARNING LIGHTS ON POLICE VEHICLES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-125, as the same appears in the 1953 Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(c)       Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the following vehicles may be equipped with a special blue warning light of a type approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles: (1) all publicly owned vehicles used primarily for law enforcement purposes; (2) all other vehicles used primarily by law enforcement officers in the performance of their official duties.

"It shall be unlawful for such blue lights to be installed on a vehicle other than those enumerated in (c) above, or for such blue lights to be activated or operated by any person except a law enforcement officer who is actively engaged in performing lawful duties."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of April, 1965.