GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 427

HOUSE BILL 1002

 

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE DUTIES OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES AT RED LIGHTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 20-156(b) is amended by adding a new sentence, immediately after the first sentence, to read:  "When appropriate warning signals are being given, as provided in this subsection, an emergency vehicle may proceed through an intersection or other place when the emergency vehicle is facing a stop sign, a yield sign, or a traffic light which is emitting a flashing strobe signal or a beam of steady or flashing red light."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective October 1, 1985.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1985.