NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 104

SENATE BILL 121

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE ELECTRONICALLY MODULATED HEADLAMPS ON MOTORCYCLES AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-130, as it appears in the 1975 Replacement of Volume 1C, is amended by adding a new subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d)      Electronically Modulated Headlamps. – Nothing contained in this Chapter shall prohibit the use of electronically modulated headlamps on motorcycles, law enforcement and fire department vehicles, county fire marshals and civil preparedness coordinators, public and private ambulances, and rescue squad emergency service vehicles, provided such headlamps and light modulator are of a type or kind which have been approved by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of March, 1977.