GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 290
HOUSE BILL 861

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT MOTOR VEHICLES SHALL STOP FOR SCHOOL BUSES EXHIBITING FLASHING RED STOPLIGHTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-217(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The driver of any vehicle upon approaching from any direction on the same street or highway any school bus (including privately owned buses transporting children and school buses transporting senior citizens under G.S. 115C-243), while the bus is displaying its mechanical stop signal or flashing red stoplights, and is stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers, shall bring his vehicle to a full stop before passing or attempting to pass the bus, and shall remain stopped until the mechanical stop signal has been withdrawn, the flashing red stoplights have been turned off, and the bus has moved on."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1991.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives