GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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HOUSE BILL 892

Short Title:  No Oral Drivers License Tests.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Mavretic.
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Referred to:  Transportation.
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April 18, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ELIMINATE ORAL DRIVERS LICENSE TESTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-7(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	The Division shall cause each person who has heretofore been issued a driver's license to be examined or reexamined, as the case may be, to determine whether or not such person is physically and mentally capable of safely operating motor vehicles over the highways of the State. Those persons found, as a result of such examination or reexamination, to be capable of safely operating motor vehicles over the highways of the State shall be reissued drivers' licenses; and those persons found to be incapable of safely operating motor vehicles over the highways of the State shall not be reissued drivers' licenses. The examination required by this subsection may include such road tests, written tests, and tests of vision, as the Division may require and shall include such test as is necessary to assure that applicants recognize the 'international symbol of access' for the handicapped (sign R7-8, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices) and devices relative to handicapped drivers as set forth in Article 2A of this Chapter.  Provided, however, that persons 60 years of age and over, when being examined as herein provided, shall not be required to parallel park a motor vehicle as part of any such examination."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.