GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 885
AN ACT TO PROVIDE PERMANENT REGISTRATION PLATES FOR DISASTER RELIEF MOTOR VEHICLES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The first paragraph of G.S. 20-84 reads as rewritten:
"The Division upon proper proof being filed with it that any motor vehicle for which registration is herein required is owned by the State or any department thereof, or by any county, township, city or town, or by any board of education, or by any orphanage or civil air patrol, or incorporated emergency rescue squad, or incorporated REACT ("Radio Emergency Association of Citizen Teams") Team, or for any motor vehicle involved exclusively in the support of a disaster relief effort, shall collect six dollars ($6.00) for the registration of such motor vehicles, but shall not collect any fee for application for certificate of title in the name of the State or any department thereof, or by any county, township, city or town, or by any board of education or orphanage: Provided, that the term 'owned' shall be construed to mean that such motor vehicle is the actual property of the State or some department thereof or of the county, township, city or town, or of the board of education, and no motor vehicle which is the property of any officer or employee of any department named herein shall be construed as being 'owned' by such department. Provided, that the above exemptions from registration fees shall also apply to any church-owned bus used exclusively for transporting children and parents to Sunday school and church services and for no other purpose."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective October 1, 1987.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 1988.