GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 327
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/23/95

Short Title:  Penalty for Failure to Dim Lights.	(Public)

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March 1, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASED PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO DIM BEAMS OF HEADLIGHTS AND AUXILIARY DRIVING LAMPS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-181 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20-181.  Penalty for failure to dim, etc., beams of headlamps.
Any person operating a motor vehicle on the highways of this State, who shall fail to shift, depress, deflect, tilt or dim the beams of the headlamps, spot lamps, or auxiliary driving lamps on that person's vehicle whenever another vehicle is met on such highways or when following another vehicle at a distance of less than 200 feet, except when engaged in the act of overtaking and passing is responsible for an infraction and may be ordered to pay a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00)."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1995.