GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 277
SENATE BILL 540

AN ACT TO AMEND LOAD WIDTH AND HEIGHT EXCEPTIONS TO LOADS OF TOBACCO TRANSPORTED ON THE HIGHWAYS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-116(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The total outside width of any vehicle or the load thereon shall not exceed 96 inches, except as otherwise provided in this section: Provided that when hogsheads of tobacco are being transported, a tolerance of six inches shall be allowed and that when sheet or bale tobacco is being transported the load does not exceed a width of 114 inches at the top of the load and the bottom of the load at the truck bed does not exceed the width of 102 inches inclusive of allowance for load shifting or settling."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of June, 1989.