GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 323

HOUSE BILL 444

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SPECIAL LICENSES FOR STREET RODS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 20-81.8.  Special plates for street rods. - Every owner of a modernized private passenger motor vehicle manufactured prior to the year 1949, or designed or manufactured to resemble a vehicle manufactured prior to the year 1949, hereinafter referred to as a 'street rod', upon the payment of the registration and licensing fees for the vehicle as required by law and an additional fee of ten dollars ($10.00) shall be issued license plates of the same form and character as other license plates now or hereinafter authorized by law to be issued upon these vehicles except that the license plates shall in addition bear on the face the following words: 'street rod'. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may make such rules as, in his discretion, seem necessary with respect to applications for special plates, time for making applications and other matters necessary for the efficient administration of this section."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 18th day of May, 1983.