NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 515

HOUSE BILL 918

 

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE RUBBER TIRES, OR TIRES OF OTHER RESILIENT MATERIAL, ON VEHICLES OPERATING ON PUBLIC HIGHWAY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by rewriting G.S. 20-122(a) to read as follows:

"No vehicle will be allowed to move on any public highway unless equipped with tires of rubber or other resilient material which depend upon compressed air, for support of a load, except by special permission of the Department of Transportation which may grant such special permits upon a showing of necessity. This subsection shall have no application to the movement of farm vehicles on highways."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 4th day of May, 1979.