NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 368

SENATE BILL 258

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-126 PERTAINING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REAR VISION MIRRORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-126 as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes is hereby amended by designating the present provisions of that Section as subsection "(a)" and by adding a new subsection to be designated "(b)" and to read as follows:

"(b)      It shall be unlawful for any person to operate upon the highways of this State any vehicle manufactured, assembled or first sold on or after January 1, 1966 and registered in this State unless such vehicle is equipped with at least one outside mirror mounted on the driver's side of the vehicle. Mirrors herein required shall be of a type approved by the Commissioner."

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective January 1, 1966.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of April, 1965.