GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 818

Short Title:  MV Wt. Relief for Recyclers.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Plyler and Kaplan.
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Referred to:  Transportation.
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April 6, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ONE-HALF THE NORMAL PENALTY FOR OVERWEIGHT VEHICLES HAULING RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-118(c)(5) reads as rewritten:
"(5)	A truck or other motor vehicle shall be exempt from such light-traffic road limitations provided for pursuant to G.S. 20-118(b)(4), when transporting processed and unprocessed seafood from boats or any other point of origin, meats and agricultural crop products originating from a farm, or forest products originating from a farm or from woodlands, or livestock or poultry by-products from point of origin, or unprocessed scrap material for recycling from a point of origin to a scrap processing facility on a light-traffic road to the nearest State maintained road which is not posted to prohibit the transportation of statutory load limits."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 20-118(e)(2) reads as rewritten:
"(2)	For each violation of the single-axle or tandem-axle weight limit as provided in G.S. 20-118(b)(1) and 20-118(b)(2) by vehicles transporting processed and unprocessed seafood from boats or any other point of origin to a processing plant or a point of further distribution, meats and agricultural crop products originating from a farm, or forest products originating from a farm or from woodlands to first market, or livestock or poultry by-products from point of origin to a rendering plant, unprocessed scrap material for recycling from a point of origin to a scrap processing facility, or fully enclosed motor vehicles designed specifically for collecting, compacting and hauling garbage from residences, or from garbage dumpsters when operating for those purposes, the owner or registrant of the vehicle shall pay to the Department a civil penalty which equals the amount produced by applying one-half of the rate indicated in the schedule in G.S. 20-118(e)(1) to the weight in pounds on each axle in excess of the maximum weight in pounds allowed under G.S. 20-118(b)(1) and 20-118(b)(2)."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 20-118(e)(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	For each violation of any weight limit as provided in G.S. 20-118(b)(3) by vehicles transporting processed and unprocessed seafood from boats or any other point of origin to a processing plant or a point of further distribution, meats and agricultural crop products originating from a farm or forest products originating from a farm or woodlands to first market, or livestock or poultry by-products from point of origin to a rendering plant, unprocessed scrap material for recycling from a point of origin to a scrap processing facility, or fully enclosed motor vehicles designed specifically for collecting, compacting and hauling garbage from residences, or from garbage dumpsters when operating for those purposes, the owner or registrant shall pay to the Department a civil penalty which equals the amount produced by applying one-half of the rate indicated in the schedule in G.S. 20-118(e)(3) to the weight in pounds on each axle group in excess of the maximum weight in pounds allowed under G.S. 20-118(b)(3)."
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.