NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1965 SESSION

CHAPTER 471
HOUSE BILL 726

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 20-116 SUBSECTION (j) RELATING TO THE OPERATION OF FARM EQUIPMENT AND OTHER MACHINES ON ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Subsection (j) of G.S. 20-116, as the same appears in the 1963 Cumulative Supplement to the Recompiled Volume of the General Statutes, is hereby amended and rewritten to read as follows:
"20-116 (j).	Self-propelled grain combines or other farm equipment self-propelled or otherwise, not exceeding fifteen and one-half feet in width may be operated on any highway, except a highway or section of highway that is a part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways; and provided, that such combines or equipment may be operated on numbered Federal or State highways exclusive of the Interstate System, only by special permit as provided in G.S. 20-119; permits issued in compliance with G.S. 20‑119 for equipment covered under this Section may be on a seasonal basis: Provided, further, that all such combines or equipment which exceed ten feet in width may be so operated only under the following conditions:
(1)	Said equipment may only be so operated during daylight hours; and
(2)	Said equipment must display a red flag on front and rear, said flags shall not be smaller than three feet wide and four feet long and be attached to a stick, pole, staff, etc., not less than four feet long and shall be so attached to said equipment as to be visible for not less than 300 feet; and said equipment shall travel only on routes designated by the special permit required under this Section and for distances not to exceed four miles; and
(3)	Equipment covered by this Section requiring special permit to be operated on permissible or designated highways, which by necessity must travel more than four miles, must be proceeded at a distance of 300 feet and followed at a distance of 300 feet by a flagman either on foot or in a vehicle. Each flagman must carry and display, by hand or mounted on his vehicle, a red flag, not smaller than three feet wide and four feet long. Said flag shall be attached to a stick, pole, staff, etc., not less than three feet long and every such piece of equipment so operated shall carry and display at least one red flag not less than three feet wide and four feet long. Equipment to be operated for a distance in excess of four miles may not be so operated on Saturdays, Sundays, or holidays; and
(4)	Every such piece of equipment so operated shall operate to the right of the center line when possible and practical."
Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 7th day of May, 1965.