GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 285
HOUSE BILL 522

AN ACT PERTAINING TO VEHICLE CONTROL SIGNS AND SIGNALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-158(b)(2) reads as rewritten:
"(2)	Vehicles facing a red light controlling traffic passing straight through an intersection from a steady or strobe beam stoplight shall not enter the intersection while the steady or strobe beam stoplight is emitting a red light controlling traffic passing straight through an intersection; provided that, except where prohibited by an appropriate sign, vehicular traffic facing a red light controlling traffic passing straight through an intersection, after coming to a complete stop at the intersection, may enter the intersection to make a right turn but such vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and to other traffic using the intersection.  When the stoplight is emitting a steady yellow circular light on a traffic signal controlling traffic passing straight through an intersection or a steady yellow arrow light on a traffic signal controlling traffic turning at an intersection, vehicles facing the yellow light are warned that the related green light is being terminated or a red light will be immediately forthcoming.  When the stoplight is emitting a steady green light, vehicles may proceed with due care through the intersection subject to the rights of pedestrians and other vehicles as may otherwise be provided by law."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of June, 1989.