1965/66/67 session laws – Ch.296 Sec.3
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CHAPTER 296 AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 20 ARTICLE 2A OF THE GENERAL STATUTES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION DESIGNATED GS 20-37.2 TO PROVIDE FOR THE IS- SUANCE AND THE USE OF DISTINCTIVE FLAGS AND DISTRESS SIGNALS BY HANDICAPPED OR PARAPLEGIC DRIVERS OF MOTOR VEHICLES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may, upon application and payment of a fee of two dollars ($2.00), issue to any handicapped person a distress flag as described in Section 1, and a card which shall be applicants authority to use such flag. This card shall set forth the applicants name, address, date of birth, physical apparatus, if any, needed to operate a motor vehicle, and other pertinent facts which the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles deems desirable. The card and flag issued to an applicant shall bear corresponding numbers. In the event of loss or destruction of such flag a replacement may be issued upon the payment of the sum of one dollar ($1.00) by the applicant. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall maintain a list of those persons to whom distress flags and cards have been issued.