Bill Text: NC S49 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Increase Fine for Speeding/School Zones
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-03 - Ch. SL 2011-64 [S49 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S49-Chaptered.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2011-64
SENATE BILL 49
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE FINE FOR SPEEDING IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑141.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20‑141.1. Speed limits in school zones.
The Board of Transportation or
local authorities within their respective jurisdictions may, by ordinance, set
speed limits lower than those designated in G.S. 20‑141 for areas
adjacent to or near a public, private or parochial school. Limits set pursuant
to this section shall become effective when signs are erected giving notice of
the school zone, the authorized speed limit, and the days and hours when the
lower limit is effective, or by erecting signs giving notice of the school
zone, the authorized speed limit and which indicate the days and hours the
lower limit is effective by an electronic flasher operated with a time clock.
Limits set pursuant to this section may be enforced only on days when school is
in session, and no speed limit below 20 miles per hour may be set under the
authority of this section. A person who drives a motor vehicle in a school zone
at a speed greater than the speed limit set and posted under this section is
responsible for an infraction and is required to pay a penalty of not less
than twenty‑five dollars ($25.00). two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00)."
SECTION 2. G.S. 20‑141(e1) reads as rewritten:
"(e1) Local authorities
within their respective jurisdictions may authorize, by ordinance, lower speed
limits than those set in subsection (b) of this section on school property. If
the lower speed limit is being set on the grounds of a public school, the local
school administrative unit must request or consent to the lower speed limit. If
the lower speed limit is being set on the grounds of a private school, the
governing body of the school must request or consent to the lower speed limit.
Speed limits established pursuant to this subsection shall become effective
when appropriate signs giving notice of the speed limit are erected upon
affected property. A person who drives a motor vehicle on school property at a
speed greater than the speed limit set and posted under this subsection is
responsible for an infraction and is required to pay a penalty of not less
than twenty‑five dollars ($25.00).two hundred fifty dollars
($250.00)."
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective August 25, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of May, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Dale R. Folwell
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 5:31 p.m. this 3rd day of May, 2011
