GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	2 

SENATE BILL 625
Transportation Committee Substitute Adopted 4/24/97

Short Title:  Speeding on School Grounds.	(Public)

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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 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( e1)	Local authorities, in their respective jurisdictions, upon the request of, and with the approval of, a local school administrative unit for public schools and the governing body of a private school, may authorize by ordinance lower speeds than those set out in subsection (b) of this section, not to exceed 15 miles per hour, on all school property.  Speed limits set pursuant to this subsection shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limits are erected upon the affected property.  For the purposes of this subsection, affected private school property shall be a 'public vehicular area' as defined in G.S. 20-4.01(32)."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.