GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 625

Short Title:  Speeding on School Grounds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Page; Albertson, Ballantine, Cochrane, East, Forrester, Foxx, Garwood, Hoyle, and Lucas.

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Referred to:  Transportation.

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April 1, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE SPEEDING IN EXCESS OF THE POSTED SPEED ON SCHOOL GROUNDS AN INFRACTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-141(e) reads as rewritten:
(e)	Local authorities, in their respective jurisdictions, may authorize by ordinance higher speeds or lower speeds than those set out in subsection (b) upon all streets which are not part of the State highway system or upon a public vehicular area on the grounds of a public or private school; but no speed so fixed shall authorize a speed in excess of 55 miles per hour. Speed limits set pursuant to this subsection shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected upon the part of the streets or public vehicular area affected."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1997, and applies to offenses occurring on or after that date.