NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION
CHAPTER 410
SENATE BILL 243
AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 20 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA RELATING TO DRIVER TRAINING AND SAFETY EDUCATION OF PROVISIONAL LICENSEES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. G.S. 20-88.1, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the same to read as follows:
"§ 20-88.1. Driver Training and Safety Education Fund. Beginning July 1, 1958, each and every passenger or property carrying vehicle registering with the Department of Motor Vehicles, for which the registration tax is now being paid at the annual rate of ten dollars ($10.00) or more, shall pay an additional annual registration tax of one dollar ($1.00). The revenue derived from the additional tax of one dollar ($1.00) shall be placed in a separate fund to finance a program of driver training and safety education at the public high schools of the State, and the amounts so collected shall be transferred periodically to the account of the State Board of Education. In accordance with criteria and standards approved by the State Board of Education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall organize and administer a program of driver education to be offered at the public high schools of the State for all persons of provisional license age. Such courses as shall be developed shall be made available to all physically and mentally qualified persons of provisional license age, including public school students, non-public school students and out of school youths under 18 years of age. In addition to the revenue derived from the annual additional registration tax of one dollar ($1.00), the State Board of Education shall use for such purpose all funds appropriated to it for said purpose, and may use all other funds which may become available for its use for said purpose."
Sec. 2. Section 2 of Chapter 682 of the Session Laws of 1957 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. G.S. 20-11, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the same to read as follows:
"§ 20-11. Application of Minors. The Department shall not grant the application of any minor between the ages of sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years for an operator's license or a learner's permit unless such application is signed both by the applicant and by the parent, guardian, husband, wife or employer of the applicant, or, if the applicant has no parent, guardian, husband, wife or employer residing in this State, by some other responsible adult person. It shall be unlawful for any person to sign the application of a minor under the provisions of this Section when such application misstates the age of the minor and any person knowingly violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
The Department shall not grant the application of any minor between the ages of sixteen (16) and eighteen (18) years for an operator's license unless such minor presents evidence of having satisfactorily completed the driver training and safety education courses offered at the public high schools as provided in G. S. 20-88.1."
Sec. 4. G.S. 20-11.1, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. G.S. 20-7, subsection (1-1), as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to Recompiled Volume 1C of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by striking the words "approved by the Department" immediately following the word "program" in line 3 of subsection (1-1), and inserting in lieu thereof the words "as provided for in G.S. 20-88.1".
Sec. 6. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 7. This Act shall become effective on and after July 1, 1965.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 5th day of May, 1965.