NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 642

SENATE BILL 694

 

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW A PROPERLY CERTIFIED COPY OF A DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES' RECORD OF PRIOR CONVICTIONS FOR DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR OR DRUGS TO CONSTITUTE PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF SUCH CONVICTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 8 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is amended to add a new section as follows:

"§ 8-35.1.  Department of Motor Vehicles record admissible as prima facie evidence of convictions under G.S. 20-138 and 20-139. — Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 15A‑924(d), a properly certified copy under G.S. 8-35 of the license records of a defendant kept by the Department of Motor Vehicles under G.S. 20-26(a) is admissible as prima facie evidence of any prior convictions of a defendant under G.S. 20-138 and G.S. 20-139."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 15A-924(d) is amended to add a sentence as follows: "Proof of previous convictions under G.S. 20-138 and G.S. 20-139 may be made in accordance with G.S. 8-35.1."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective on October 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1975.