GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1985 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 964

HOUSE BILL 1696

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE HAULERS OF TRASH, GARBAGE OR RUBBLE TO COVER THE LOADS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  A new sentence is inserted after the second paragraph of G.S. 20-116(g) to read:  "Trucks, trailers or other vehicles when loaded with trash, garbage, rubble, or other similar substances which could blow, leak, sift or drop shall not be driven or moved on any highway unless the load is securely covered by a tarpaulin or some other suitable covering, or unless they are constructed so as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, or otherwise escaping therefrom."

Sec. 2.  This act shall apply to Dare County only.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of July, 1986.