GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 195
HOUSE BILL 135

AN ACT TO MAKE CONFIDENTIAL ALL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES AND SIGNATURES RECORDED BY THE DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES FOR DRIVERS LICENSES AND SPECIAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 20-43(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	All records of the Division, other than those declared by law to be confidential for the use of the Division, shall be open to public inspection during office hours.  A photographic image or signature recorded in any format by the Division for a drivers license or a special identification card is confidential and shall not be released except for law enforcement purposes."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives