GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1144

Short Title:  Speeding in School Zones.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Wood; and Hightower.

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Referred to:  Transportation, if favorable, Judiciary I.

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April 21, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES SHALL ENTER RECORDS OF SPEEDING IN SCHOOL ZONES CHARGED AS VIOLATIONS OF LOCAL ORDINANCES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-141.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-141.1.  Speed limits in school zones.
The Board of Transportation or local authorities within their respective jurisdictions may, by ordinance, set speed limits lower than those designated in G.S. 20-141 for areas adjacent to or near a public, private or parochial school. Limits set pursuant to this section shall become effective when signs are erected giving notice of the school zone, the authorized speed limit, and the days and hours when the lower limit is effective, or by erecting signs giving notice of the school zone, the authorized speed limit and which indicate the days and hours the lower limit is effective by an electronic flasher operated with a time clock. Limits set pursuant to this section may be enforced only on days when school is in session, and no speed limit below 20 miles per hour may be set under the authority of this section.
The clerk of court shall send to the Division a record of a conviction for violation of State law or local ordinance prohibiting speeding in a school zone in excess of the posted school zone speed limit.  The Division shall enter the conviction on the driving record of the person who is convicted of the violation and shall assign to the record of that person the number of points provided in G.S. 20-16(c)	for conviction of that violation."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1997.