Bill Text: NC H418 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: SOS/Save Our Street Signs
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-25 - Re-ref Com On Appropriations [H418 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2017-H418-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
H 3
HOUSE BILL 418
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/13/17
Committee Substitute #2 Favorable 4/25/17
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Short Title: SOS/Save Our Street Signs. |
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March 22, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT increasing the criminal penalty and dot reward for damaging or removing street sign offenses.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 136‑33 reads as rewritten:
"§ 136‑33. Damaging or removing signs; rewards.
(a) No person shall
willfully deface, damage, knock down or remove any sign posted traffic
sign or other traffic control device as provided in G.S. 136‑26
or G.S. 136‑30.
(b) No person, without just
cause or excuse, shall have in his possession any highway sign traffic
sign or other traffic control device as provided in G.S. 136‑26
or G.S. 136‑30.
(b1) Any person violating the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.Class
1 misdemeanor and shall pay a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(c) The Department of
Transportation is authorized to offer a reward not to exceed five hundred
dollars ($500.00)one thousand dollars ($1,000) for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of persons who violate the provisions of
this section, such reward to be paid from funds of the Department of
Transportation.
(d) The enforcement of this section shall be the specific responsibility and duty of the State Highway Patrol in addition to all other law‑enforcement agencies and officers within this State."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2017, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
